Medhanye Alem, clinical program director who was with CVT Ethiopia for nearlly a decade, is quoted in the New York Times about the impacts on the people of sub-Saharan Africa from the Trump administration work stoppages. Chief Africa correspondent Declan Walsh writes about the scale of the closures and what that means to the people being served and to the workers. Walsh wrote, “’We are in disbelief,’ said Medhanye Alem of the Center for Victims of Torture, which treats survivors of conflict-related trauma at nine centers in northern Ethiopia, all now closed.”

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‘We Are in Disbelief’: Africa Reels as U.S. Aid Agency Is Dismantled

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New York Times