USAID staff abandoned:
"If my colleagues were kidnapped in the next day or two, they don’t even have the help button on their phone. If I had a colleague that was in West Africa and had someone from ISIS go and take them, they couldn’t even let the [special security] know that they’ve been taken."
"If my colleagues were kidnapped in the next day or two, they don’t even have the help button on their phone. If I had a colleague that was in West Africa and had someone from ISIS go and take them, they couldn’t even let the [special security] know that they’ve been taken."
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Sheri Fink
"he said we’re pausing all foreign assistance...From a humanitarian & development & stabilization perspective...it means people are dying...they were giving stop work orders to absolutely all implementing partners...maybe this is more sinister than we ever imagined." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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It's important that people know what's really happening.
They cut all communication and abandoned our own people in precarious situations.
It's criminal.
"I don’t know. I don’t know if I’m being paid. I don’t know if I’m on leave. I don’t know if I’m being terminated. We know nothing. There’s no access."
"Shock and devastation. I have never seen my colleagues look this way. And we have lost people. I’ve had multiple colleagues die in terrible events. We are not a soft bunch of people when it comes to emotions."