Ernst highlighted that the agency "authorized a whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq." Under the Biden administration, USAID awarded $20 million to a nonprofit called Sesame ...

USAID money only funded the Ahlan Simsim Iraq early childhood development program. This program did include localized content which leveraged the existing "Ahlan Simsim" TV show. However ...

A carousel of students’ faces from Iraq, the West Bank, and Ukraine spun in my mind. USAID directly or indirectly funded gender equality, religious tolerance, and English-language education ...

I deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom ... of America’s soft power professionals. I landed at USAID in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.

An UN spokesperson announced Tuesday that USAID funding cancellations have resulted in the closure of a UN human rights program intended on helping torture victims and the families of missing persons ...

The embattled US Agency for International Development has engaged in “willful ... $20 million to make a Sesame Street in Iraq and $9 million in humanitarian aid that “ended up in the hands ...

Airport personnel check humanitarian aid supplies after 60 tons of aid from USAID were unloaded from a plane at the airport in Arbil, northern Iraq, on September 2, 2014. Airport personnel check ...

US construction giant Bechtel has landed a contract worth up to $680m (£433m) to help in the rebuilding of Iraq. The deal is the fifth and by far the largest to be handed out by the US Agency for ...