NewsBite

Foreign aid

Advertisement
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, 1, is facing life-threatening malnutrition.

‘Innocent life matters’: The photographs of children that captured the world’s conscience

From Sudan to Vietnam and Gaza, images of suffering children have become totems of humanitarian catastrophes and prompted hard questions about photographic ethics.

  • Nick Newling

Latest

Naima Abu Ful and her two-year-old Yazan in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

‘We have crossed the line’: Gaza hunger crisis turns into death spiral

This month, the hunger that has been building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid workers and health officials say.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath
Dr Ayman Elattar has recently returned from a medical mission to Gaza. June 6th, 2025, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Australian doctors saving lives in Gaza

Without notes or forms, Dr Ayman Alattar wrote information on people’s bodies as he worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza’s north.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
A Palestinian girl waits to collect donated food from a distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Friday.

‘Death trap’: Dozens killed waiting for food in Gaza

Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds waiting before dawn for a controversial new aid distribution site to open.

  • Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy
UN peacekeepers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan, in February.

Trump’s aid cuts claim early victims after three-hour walk in 40-degree heat

The deaths of eight people, including five children, are among the first to be directly attributed to the cuts imposed by the US president.

  • Aaron Ross
Russian Emergency Ministry employees leave one of two planes that landed in Myanmar following Friday’s earthquake.

China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

  • Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
Advertisement
Elon Musk played a key role in Donald Trump’s winning campaign and has been rewarded with an advisory role in the new administration.

I’ve seen the impact of Trump and Musk’s savagery. What they’re doing is cruel and lethal

As an aid leader, how do I tell my African friends that Trump’s Christianity isn’t for them, so babies will die?

  • Tim Costello
Yeath Saly, 11.

The US was cleaning up its deadly mess in Cambodia – then came Trump’s call

The United States dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Cambodia. Now efforts to get rid of them have been thrown into disarray.

  • Zach Hope and Nara Lon
Software engineers enlisted to work for DOGE and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, left to right: Ethan Shaotran, 22, Luke Farritor, 23, Gavin Kliger, 25, Edward Coristine, 19, Akash Bobba, 21, Gautier Cole Killian, 24.

‘Muskovites’: The baby-faced squad dismantling foreign aid

America’s USAID is being pulled apart by a band of 19-24-year-old tech proteges hand-picked to slash government spending.

  • Cameron Henderson
Schapelle Corby’s release will play a part in the political discussion in Indonesia over the release of the remaining Bali Nine.

Most Australians don’t remember the Bali Nine. Indonesians won’t forget Schapelle Corby

In the public discussion about the potential release of the remaining Bali Nine drug smugglers, many Indonesians will remember another occasion when a deal was done.

  • Michael Bachelard

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/foreign-aid-1lz6