usaid | TucsonSentinel.com http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/tag/usaid usaid news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2013 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 Iraq pullout could mean more non-competitive defense contracting http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/102411_iraq_contracting/iraq-pullout-could-mean-more-non-competitive-defense-contracting/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/102411_iraq_contracting/iraq-pullout-could-mean-more-non-competitive-defense-contracting/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com Out go all the U.S. troops by year’s end, President Obama said Friday about Iraq. And in go the contractors, along with some familiar contracting problems, say other government officials and independent experts. 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 Corruption, war hinders food aid to Somalia http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/083011_somalia_aid/corruption-war-hinders-food-aid-somalia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/083011_somalia_aid/corruption-war-hinders-food-aid-somalia/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com As the famine in southern Somalia worsens, aid experts fear that corruption and the politics of terrorism are crimping the flow of humanitarian relief to areas where starvation is worst. 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 Jill Biden visits refugee camps in Somalia http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/080811_somalia_biden/jill-biden-visits-refugee-camps-somalia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/080811_somalia_biden/jill-biden-visits-refugee-camps-somalia/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, led a high-profile delegation to northeast Kenya on Monday as a humanitarian crisis sparked by war, famine and drought engulfed the Horn of Africa. 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 Are Americans getting their money's worth in foreign police? http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042911_foreignpolice/are-americans-getting-their-moneys-worth-foreign-police/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042911_foreignpolice/are-americans-getting-their-moneys-worth-foreign-police/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com The U.S. government pumped $3.5 billion into foreign police forces in 2009, an amount nearly 2,000 percent higher than two decades ago. Afghanistan received $1.6 billion while Iraq got $377 million, and virtually all of the funding came from the Pentagon and State Department. 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 U.S. funding for the Taliban: Can it be stopped? http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101210_taliban_funding/us-funding-taliban-can-it-stopped/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/101210_taliban_funding/us-funding-taliban-can-it-stopped/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com Counterinsurgency theory bumps up against some hard realities in Afghanistan: “All the contractors for development projects pay the Taliban for protection and use of the roads, so American and coalition dollars help finance the Taliban.” 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00 Taxpayer money funneled to Taliban http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/093010_taliban_tax_funds/taxpayer-money-funneled-taliban/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/093010_taliban_tax_funds/taxpayer-money-funneled-taliban/ 09:17:00Z TucsonSentinel.com A one-year probe into USAID funding in Afghanistan found that Afghan subcontractors have been funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money to the Taliban, according to a summary of the report obtained by GlobalPost. 2013-06-19T09:17:02+00:00