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USAID employees detail harrowing exits from DR Congo amid violence as Trump administration dismantles agency

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CNN  — US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after they were ordered to return from their assignments in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several employees, as part of a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a group representing the agency’s foreign service members, painted harrowing pictures of their … [Read more…]

Forced to flee Congo, USAID workers lost everything. They’re suing Trump

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USAID workers based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, tell a harrowing story of how Trump’s attack on the agency complicated an escape. Jan. 28 began as a normal day for “Marcus Doe,” an employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He boarded a shuttle, bound … [Read more…]