I went through the DOGE website to look at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) payments in Africa. No matter what people may say, or what the MSM says, we, Africans, who for the longest times have said that there was something fishy with that organization in our countries, feel vindicated. Can you imagine that some of the payments were made on ‘blank checks,’ without descriptions, receipts, or invoices? Can you, simple individual X, ask money from the government without a justification?

USAID previously allocated $12.3 billion to Sub-Saharan Africa, but much of this funding has now been eliminated. Now, I am not saying that all USAID programs were wrong, but I am saying that some of it was downright suspicious. African governments need to step up to provide for the needs of their own populations, rather than wait for others, and the predators need to let go of Africans. 

Just to give you an example, since Robert Mugabe re-distributed the stolen ancestral lands back to their rightful owners in Zimbabwe, the country has been under rigid embargo since the 2000s from the United States, the United Kingdom, and others. How come then, that the USAID totaled over $375,000 for just the month of March 2025 to mitigate the effects of El Niño? Overall, USAID cuts total $522 million in Zimbabwe, which funded a few things including some questionable ones such as, a) $8 million for “New Narratives for accountability” funding musicians and other art creatives to take part in civil society campaigns for accountability; b) $5 million to promote the independence of institutions in Zimbabwe’s justice sector; c) $7 million for media organizations; d) $3 million for election observers. Say WHAT? What does accountability for musicians to take part in civil society campaign mean? Why finance the justice sector in a foreign country? I thought there was embargo???

In Nigeria, among other areas, USAID previously allocated $603 million for governance, security, and economic development among other things, but this funding is now uncertain under the 90-day freeze which stemmed from President Donald Trump executive order. What kind of ‘governance’ funding could the USAID give to a supposedly ‘independent’ country like Nigeria? According to PUNCH, USAID previously allocated approximately $2.8 billion to Nigeria between 2022 and 2024. What did they, USAID, get in return?

USAID’s funding in Africa has historically been allocated across various sectors, including health (why are our countries still in bad shape after years of this aid, if there was no corruption on both sides? By now, with the amount of money, some of these countries should have amazing and robust health sectors), agriculture (in some of these countries, this favored the introduction of GMO crops that have been killing African indigenous cultures among other things), education (show us a country whose education has benefited?), and humanitarian aid. In 2024, the largest recipients of USAID funding in Sub-Saharan Africa included (Top 10 African countries that have received the most aid from the U.S. in 2025 despite USAID ban | Business Insider Africa):

• Ethiopia: $1.22 billion
• Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): $1.27 billion
• Somalia: $826 million
• South Sudan: $816 million
• Nigeria: $762 million
• Sudan: $671 million
• Kenya: $647 million