Having worked internationally off/on since the mid-1980s, I have witnessed the immense good and value that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has brought to the international ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been at the centre of political turmoil since the Trump administration announced it wanted to shut it down. The move all but ends a six ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should lead that effort. To embrace a state-building mission, however, USAID will have to be transformed. The agency will need to do less but ...

But Team Trump directing USAID employees to shred and burn documents in Washington, D.C., is bizarre. It also raises unavoidable questions about what, exactly, motivated the administration to ...

In a motion filed in Washington, DC, federal court, the unions cited an email from USAID's acting executive secretary Erica Carr instructing employees to come to the agency's office on Tuesday for ...

A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to ...

Staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have been told to shred and burn classified documents and personnel files. The request raised alarm among employees and labour groups ...

The email was sent under the name of Erica Carr — the acting executive secretary at USAID — and bears a USAID logo. “Thank you for your assistance in clearing our classified safes and personnel ...

Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/,” which is an agency abbreviation for “bureau or independent office.” The email didn’t provide ...

The few USAID employees remaining after Trump’s mass firings were directed on Tuesday to shred and burn classified and personnel documents remaining at the office’s Washington, D.C ...

WASHINGTON — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered ...