The Trump administration's USAID budget cuts are foreseen to severely impact African nations, where crucial funding streams will be lost in countries like Senegal and Guinea. In particular, Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema characterized these cuts as a "devastating blow for Africa," stressing how the cuts threaten health, education, and infrastructure programs that have been underpinned by American aid. The ripple effect has also led other countries to reduce their aid contributions, prompting warnings that millions could fall into extreme poverty by 2030.
In an early-May op-ed, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema describes the Trump administration's aid cuts as a "devastating blow for Africa." He notes that Sub-Saharan Africa received $12.7 billion in 2024, with the US accounting for one-quarter of international aid.
NGOs caution that funding gaps are undermining critical health, education and infrastructure programmes across the continent, threatening to reverse decades of development progress and jeopardising lives.
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