Topic - United States Agency For International Development

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  CARMEN: Newt Gingrich betrayed Ronald Reagan

  Because the Gipper is not here to say, "There you go again!" to Mr. Gingrich, and because the choice of a new president is so critical to the nation today, it falls on us who served with Reagan and are still around to tell America the truth about Mr. Gingrich and his repeated attempts to thwart Reagan's cornerstone achievement: the defeat of global tyranny in the form of the Soviet Union and the final rejection of communism as a failed experiment.

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  Conference outlines pathways to prosperity for South Sudan

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged the leaders of oil-rich South Sudan to manage natural resources prudently and warned them against falling prey to unscrupulous corporations and countries.

• Violence mars investment scene in South Sudan

  An escalation of violence with Sudan is challenging South Sudan's fledling government to attract desperately needed foreign investment.

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  White House initiates strategy to deal with rights violations against gays abroad

  The Obama administration Tuesday issued the first-ever U.S. strategy to address foreign nations' human-rights violations against gays, directing all U.S. government agencies to protect them from abuses.

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  U.S. to use foreign aid to promote gay rights

  The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.

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  MOWBRAY: Abbas toys with terror link

  After pushing the envelope for the past few years, Palestinian Au- thority (PA) President Mah- moud Abbas finally might have pushed too far. The stalwart backing the PA has received from the U.S. government - which results in upward of $500 million in total annual funding - appears to be waning.

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  PERRY & SOLSO: No security without diplomacy, development

  As we write this, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in Congress has just ended its efforts to eliminate more than a trillion dollars from the federal budget, without success. This has been an important and difficult task: No nation remains strong with a weak economy. For this reason, we urge Americans to uphold a crucial rule for reducing our deficit while ensuring our nation's strength. Do not lose sight of Congress' vision, which finally placed diplomacy and development in our national security budget alongside defense, homeland security and intelligence. Defunding diplomacy and development would save pennies today and cost millions tomorrow in lost economic opportunities and new security threats.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's Kenyan move

  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Monday confirming Obama administration meddling in the drafting of controversial provisions of Kenya's constitution, which were ratified last year. Officials funneled $18 million in taxpayer cash to a number of groups, at least one of which openly worked to reverse the African country's ban on killing the unborn. U.S. law prohibits lobbying for or against abortion with foreign aid money.

• Robin Copeland, 46, Energy Department official

  Robin Copeland, a former Energy Department official who took part in several significant disarmament programs, died suddenly Sunday. She was 46.

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  Autumn harvest watched warily in food-poor North Korea

  Scythe in hand, a woman slices through a bright green field of rice. Oxen plod down country roads pulling carts piled high with harvested stalks of grain.

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  Autumn harvest watched warily in food-poor N. Korea

  Primitive farming techniques; a lack of arable land in a rugged, mountainous country; and the suspected diversion of food to military and ruling party elites have contributed to widespread hunger in North Korea's poorest areas, aid groups say.

• U.S. to young Kenyans: 'Yes Youth Can!'

  A U.S. government-backed program is telling young Kenyans "Yes Youth Can!" in a political program designed to improve leadership skills that carries overtones of President Obama's election message.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Farishta'

  There was a time, particularly during the Cold War, when the lines between the responsibilities of the State Department and the Defense Department were clearly drawn. Defense did war-fighting when diplomacy broke down, and when the fighting stopped, the diplomats took over.

• USAID chief leaves amid funding row

  The U.S. foreign aid director in Egypt abruptly flew back to Washington on Thursday after less than a year on the job, the first major casualty of a row between the two longtime allies over American funding for anti-government groups.

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  U.S. set to announce $100M in Somalia famine funding

  Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in the country's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official said Monday as Washington prepared to announce $100 million in new famine aid.

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