{"id":22399,"date":"2025-02-18T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22399"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:25:00","slug":"usaid-climate-programs-fighting-extremism-and-unrest-are-closing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22399","title":{"rendered":"USAID Climate Programs Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D.<\/p>\n

One such project helped communities manage water stations<\/a> in Niger, a hotbed of Islamist extremist groups where conflicts over scarce water are common. Another helped repair water-treatment plants in the strategic port city of Basra, Iraq, where dry taps had caused violent anti-government protests. The aid group\u2019s oldest program, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, ran a forecasting system<\/a> that allowed aid workers in places like war-torn South Sudan to prepare for catastrophic floods last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fate of these programs remains uncertain. The Trump administration has essentially sought<\/a> to shutter the agency. A federal court<\/a> has issued a temporary restraining order. On the ground, much of the work has stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were buying down future risk,\u201d said Erin Sikorsky, director of the Center for Climate and Security and a former U.S. intelligence official. \u201cInvest little today so we don\u2019t have to spend a lot in the future when things metastasize.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The German government this week released a report calling climate change \u201cthe greatest security threat of our day and age<\/a>,\u201d echoing a U.S. intelligence report from 2021, which described climate hazards as \u201cthreat multipliers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some U.S.A.I.D. funding supported mediation programs to prevent local clashes over land or water. For instance, as the rains become erratic in the Sahel, clashes between farmers and cattle herders become more frequent.<\/p>\n

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Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D.One such project helped communities manage water stations in Niger, a hotbed of Islamist extremist groups where conflicts over scarce water are common. Another helped repair water-treatment plants in the strategic port city of Basra, Iraq, where dry taps had caused violent anti-government protests. The aid group\u2019s oldest program, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, ran a forecasting system that allowed aid workers in places like war-torn South Sudan to prepare for catastrophic floods last year.The fate of these programs remains uncertain. The Trump administration has essentially sought to shutter the agency. A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order. On the ground, much of the work has stopped.\u201cThey were buying down future risk,\u201d said Erin Sikorsky, director of the Center for Climate and Security and a former U.S. intelligence official. \u201cInvest little today so we don\u2019t have to spend a lot in the future when things metastasize.\u201dThe German government this week released a report calling climate change \u201cthe greatest security threat of our day and age,\u201d echoing a U.S. intelligence report from 2021, which described climate hazards as \u201cthreat multipliers.\u201dSome U.S.A.I.D. funding supported mediation programs to prevent local clashes over land or water. For instance, as the rains become erratic in the Sahel, clashes between farmers and cattle herders become more frequent.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22401,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}