by Sasha Abramsky | Jun 5, 2026 | Africa, Article, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump
This article was originally published by Truthout on June 04, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
In 2018, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) experienced a severe Ebola outbreak, more than 30 experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), close to 20 disaster-response specialists from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and 120 additional USAID staff were on the ground attempting to manage the outbreak, according to estimates from Friends of USAID, an advocacy organization mainly made up of ex-USAID staffers. With that level of staffing in 2018, by and large, they succeeded in limiting the extent to which the disease spread.
This year, as a particularly virulent strain of the Ebola virus — the Bundibugyo strain, against which there is no approved vaccine and for which there are no medicinal cures — runs rampant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friends of USAID estimate there is only one CDC staffer on the ground there, along with five additional State Department personnel. There are of course no USAID workers present, since the Trump administration dismantled USAID during the purges led by the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) in 2025, summarily firing local health care contractors around the world, including in countries with extreme poverty rates such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In addition, since Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization in early 2025 — a pullout that was completed in January of this year — CDC experts are no longer allowed to communicate with World Health Organization personnel. And despite
by Julia Conley | May 27, 2026 | Africa, Donald Trump, Ebola, Kenya, Marco Rubio, News, Trump Administration, USAID
In what one emergency physician and public health expert called “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,” the Trump administration is reportedly preparing to send Americans with suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola to a facility in Kenya, instead of repatriating them and treating them in the state-of-the-art quarantine and treatment facilities the U.S. has for dangerous diseases that pose…
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 26, 2026 | Africa, Donald Trump, Ghana, Israel, News, Slavery, transatlantic slave trade, United Nations
The U.S. and Israel were two of only three countries to vote against a resolution in the UN to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. The resolution strongly condemns slavery and the trafficking of Africans and recognizes the impacts of the “abhorrent regimes of slavery and colonialism” and contemporary colonialism of Africa.
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by Stephen Prager | Dec 27, 2025 | Africa, Boko Haram, Donald Trump, Drone Strikes, ISIS, News, Nigeria, Trump Administration
When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” But locals in a town that was hit during the strike say terrorism has never been a problem for them. On Friday, CNN published a report based on…
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by Brett Wilkins | Dec 26, 2025 | Africa, Drone Strikes, Drone Warfare, ISIS, News, Nigeria, War
President Donald Trump — the self-described “most anti-war president in history” — has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly…
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