"This is a sign that the Biden administration recognizes the enormity of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan but feels constrained in addressing it due to concerns about political optics at home. The legal basis for using a portion of the Afghan central bank's reserves to compensate 9/11 victims ...

Global development experts told Devex the administration has backed up its early promises by setting the right priorities in office, but they also warned that Biden’s team has a short window remaining to translate those priorities into meaningful action. Some also questioned the extent to which key ...

As winter approaches, humanitarian watchdogs are sounding the alarm over the increasingly likely possibility of mass starvation across Afghanistan, a deeply impoverished nation whose economy plunged into a tailspin after the United States' withdrawal of troops in August. David Beasley, the executive...

USAID has also been criticized for wasting billions of dollars in funds. It was tasked with nation-building in Afghanistan after Sept. 11 for example, setting up schools and health care facilities, but much of the money went into the pockets of corrupt officials and many of the projec...

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