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The Middle East Forum’s publication, Focus on Western Islamism, has uncovered $164 million in approved grants from USAID to radical organisations, including at least $122 million to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.
USAID has given millions of dollars to organisations in Gaza controlled by Hamas and funded charities that have also been linked to Hamas and have promoted violently anti-Semitic rhetoric.
World Vision, for example, has received almost $2 billion in USAID grants since 2008. The charity has been involved with terrorist organisations including the Islamic Relief Agency, which was designated as a terror-financing organisation by the US in 2004.
Other charities to have received funding while having ties to terrorist organisations such as Hamas include Muslim Aid, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, READ Foundation, Tides Foundation and InterAction.
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Introduction
The Middle East Forum (“MEF”) is an American conservative 501(c)(3) think tank founded in 1990 by Daniel Pipes, who serves as its president. It is based in Philadelphia and focuses on promoting American interests in the Middle East and defending Western values from Islamist threats. One of the organisation’s publications is Focus on Western Islamism (“FWI”) which offers counter-Islamist investigative journalism, opinions and news.
At the beginning of the month, FWI published a report on its multi-year study into the US Department of State’s (“DoS’s”) Office of Palestinian Affairs and the US Agency for International Development (“USAID”) funding to designated terrorist groups. The amount of federal funding that ends up in the pockets of Islamist organisations, both domestic and foreign, makes the US government one of the leading financiers of global Islamism.
The report notes that there are problems with the reliability of government spending data and that they have analysed approved grant sums as the actual amounts paid out are unknown. Our article is paraphrased from FWI’s report. The report contains hyperlinks to the authors’ sources which we have not included. We have instead added our own hyperlinks to provide more context on the groups being highlighted. You can read the full report HERE. In conjunction with this report, readers may be interested in browsing NGO Monitor’s mapping of the anti-Israel NGO network in the US. NGO Monitor has identified 157 groups that are part of this network.
FWI has uncovered $164 million of approved grants from the DoS and USAID to radical organisations. Included in that amount is at least $122 million to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.
DoS money has been handed to radical domestic groups such as the Tides Foundation, which members of Congress have accused of funding pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish violence in college campuses across America.
Major aid organisations such as World Vision and Catholic Relief Services, as well as advocacy organisations such as InterAction, serve as important vehicles, sometimes knowingly, for terror-tied Islamists, both in the United States and abroad. These charities depend on federal funding, receiving billions of taxpayers’ dollars, FWI’s report said.
Federal funding subsidises efforts by domestic Islamists involved with Hamas, Jamaat-e-Islami and the Turkish regime, to abrogate rules and scrutiny in the United States intended to tackle the threat of terror finance. Records of federal funding, particularly through USAID, are obfuscated by deficient disclosure practices, deleted data and deliberate attempts to evade transparency, with millions of dollars given to anonymous beneficiaries in terrorism-stricken areas of the globe.
USAID and Hamas-Linked Charities
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”—The Covenant of the Hamas (1988)
“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.”—Hamas Document of General Principles and Policies (2017)
Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, is an organisation which calls for the establishment of an Islamic Palestinian state under Sharia law and has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel. It has long been involved in significant terrorist violence. The organisation, or its military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades, is designated as a terrorist organisation in the USA, as it is by several countries including Canada, the UK, the European Union, Argentina, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Israel, and Paraguay. The Organisation of American States, a group of 34 Caribbean and Latin American countries plus Canada, designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation in May 2021. Additionally, Hamas’s activities had been banned in Jordan and Germany.
When speaking of Islamic organisations such as Hamas it’s important to bear in mind that Islamists are not the same as Muslims. As the Washington Institute of Near East Policy states, “Islamism is not a form of the Muslim faith or an expression of Muslim piety; it is, rather, a political ideology that strives to derive legitimacy from Islam.”
USAID has given millions of dollars to organisations in Gaza that are controlled by Hamas. USAID beneficiaries have called for their lands to be “cleansed” from the “impurity of the Jews,” among dozens of other chilling statements, the FWI report said.
USAID staff attend the offices of charities which seemingly operate on behalf of senior Hamas leaders, while the staff of multiple multi-million dollar USAID beneficiary charities openly praise and encourage violence against Jews.
Bayader Association for Environment and Development (“Bayader”)
Founded in 2007, shortly after Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip, Bayader operates in close cooperation with the Hamas regime. USAID officials have praised Bayader’s work on social media, and even visited Bayader’s offices.
Since 2016, USAID as given Bayader $901, 203. The most recent USAID grant to Bayader was issued on 1 October 2023, just six days before Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October.
American Near East Refugee Aid (“ANERA”)
ANERA is an organisation that provides humanitarian and development aid to the Middle East, specifically the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Jordan. For decades, ANERA has been accused of supporting extremists tied to Hamas. USAID is one of ANERA’s biggest contributors, approving transfers to the organisation of tens of millions of dollars over the past few decades, including a $12.5 million grant in 2024. In total, the FWI report has calculated that over $109 million has been given to ANERA.
ANERA is a long-standing partner of Hamas-linked charity, Bayader (see above). The organisation has also used USAID monies to fund projects of the Unlimited Friends Association (see below) which MEF has in a previous study determined to be a Hamas proxy organisation.
In 2000, an ANERA report appears to disclose a partnership with the Ihsan Society, which, in 2005, the US government designated as a front for Hamas.
In 2017, a report from the Israel Law Centre alleged that money sent through ANERA to the Palestinian territories was “used to support Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) kindergartens that actively indoctrinate children in hatred and killing of Israeli civilians, as well as other PIJ and Hamas organisations, thus enabling them to finance terrorist activity, which is forbidden by U.S. law.”
In 2014, Mousa Shawwa, ANERA’s “logistics coordinator,” endorsed a call on social media for God to “erase the Jews.”
Unlimited Friends Association (“UFA”)
UFA is involved with senior Hamas leaders and promotes violently anti-Semitic rhetoric across its social media pages.
The charity hosts events to provide financial support to the “the families of martyrs and prisoners” and carries out its work in open collaboration with Hamas. UFA has organised events and invited to its offices prominent Hamas figures such as Mustafa Sawwaf, who calls “Israel’s disappearance … a necessity [according to] the Koran.”
Hatred for Jews permeates UFA’s activities, the FWI report said. For example, in 2013, the charity published a social media post stating: “We ask God to drive away the anguish of the heroic prisoners in the Nazi Zionist jails and to free Al-Aqsa Al-Sharif from the filth of the most dirty Jews.” UFA officials express similar rhetoric. In April 2021, UFA director Jomaa Khadoura called on his own Facebook page for God to “cleanse Al-Aqsa from the impurity of the Jews.”
Other USAID-funded charities also provide funds to UFA. These include Islamic Relief and Helping Hand for Relief and Development.
Islamic Relief
Islamic Relief is the leading charitable institution of the Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen, better known as the Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in the United Kingdom, Islamic Relief is one of the leading Islamist financial institutions across the globe, with branches, offices and affiliates in over 40 countries. Islamist activists run the charity which has led to bans and blacklisting in multiple Arab and European countries.
USAID has approved $2 million of funding for two branches of Islamic Relief – Islamic Relief Ethiopia and Islamic Relief Worldwide – despite its overt connections to terror.
In 2022, Islamic Relief repeatedly partnered with senior terrorist officials in Gaza, including Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad. In February 2023, Islamic Relief launched a project in Khan Yunis, Gazan. The initiative was carried out by Islamic Relief Palestine and Bayader.
In 2016, Islamic Relief founder Hany El-Banna gave an interview to Hamas’s official radio station in Gaza. He revealed that Islamic Relief has worked closely with the Gaza Zakat Committee (“IZS”) for decades. IZS is a leading charitable institution of Hamas whose own website describes its officials as “soldiers for Jerusalem,” and frequently runs events with senior Hamas officials.
Islamic Relief branches have also served as conduits for other radical organisations. The accounts of Islamic Relief’s British headquarters, for instance, have disclosed millions of dollars of income from dozens of terror-tied groups, including branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf and terror-linked groups such as the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, which was founded by the Al-Qaeda terrorist and Bin Laden loyalist Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani.
In 2019, responding to parliamentarians the German federal government expressed concerns about Islamic Relief Deutschland and the franchise’s UK parent organisation, Islamic Relief Worldwide, declaring that both had “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2020, the U.S. State Department warned about the “blatant and horrifying anti-Semitism and glorification of violence exhibited at the most senior levels of Islamic Relief Worldwide.”
In 2021, after a media outcry that Islamic Relief Netherlands was to be among the recipients of an 825 million euro government grant programme, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation declared that, after consultations with security services and the German government, Islamic Relief was recognised to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and would be barred from receiving the funding.
Helping Hand for Relief and Development (“HHRD”)
HHRD is the overseas aid arm of the Islamic Circle of North America (“ICNA”), the US branch of the violent South Asian Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami.
In 2017, the Middle East Forum revealed that HHRD had organised a conference at a government-run college in Pakistan in collaboration with the charitable and political wings of the Pakistani terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.
In Pakistan, HHRD’s chief partner is the Al-Khidmat Foundation. In 2006, Al-Khidmat announced it had “presented a cheque of six-million rupees from the people of Pakistan to Khaled Meshaal, head of politburo Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)” to finance their “just Jihad.”
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has found that previously, HHRD’s parent organisation ICNA has on its websites “linked to the websites of Hamas, Hizballah, and terrorist organisations fighting in Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Pakistani-Indian disputed region of Kashmir. Among its short list of recommended Islamic charities was the Islamic Society in Gaza, which openly touted its connections to Hamas.”
In Gaza, HHRD is a partner of the Unlimited Friends Association.
Islamic Relief Agency (and World Vision)
In 2014, USAID awarded $723,405 to World Vision, an enormous international evangelical charity, to “improve water, sanitation and hygiene and to increase food security in Sudan’s Blue Nile state.” Of these funds, $200,000 was to be directed to a sub-grantee: the Khanrtoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (“ISRA”). ISRA was and remains a listed terror organisation.
The US designated the Khartoum-based group as a terror-financing organisation in 2004, because of ISRA’s links to Osama bin Laden and his organisation Maktab al-Khidamat (“MK”), the precursor of al-Qaeda. After the US had designated ISRA as a terrorist organisation it emerged that ISRA’s American branch, Islamic American Relief Agency (“IARA-USA”) had illegally transferred over $1.2 million to Iraqi insurgents and other terror groups, including, reportedly, the Afghan terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
World Vision desperately sought to circumvent the terror link proscription. In 2015, World Vision wrote to the Treasury Department and USAID to apply for a new license to pay ISRA “monies owed for work performed.” After World Vision sent panicked and bullying emails to government officials demanding the release of the money, and repeated interventions on World Vision’s behalf by a high-ranking staff for US Congressman Adam Smith and deputy ambassador to the United Nations Jeremy Weinstein, the license was granted, and USAID began “a one-time transfer of approximately $125,000 to ISRA.”
ISRA was not World Vision’s first or last involvement with a terrorist organisation. In 2006, World Vision signed a joint memorandum with the US-designated terror group Interpal, a financial supporter of Hamas. In 2012, World Vision appeared to use Australian government dollars to fund a known proxy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”).
In 2022, an Israeli court convicted and sentenced World Vision’s manager of operations for Gaza, Mohammad Halabi, on terror financing charges. Halabi was initially accused of diverting as much as $50 million of World Vision funds to Hamas.
USAID, however, has continued to fund World Vision. Almost $2 billion of taxpayers’ money has been authorised in USAID grants to the charity since 2008, with $200 million approved in just 2024.
Mercy-USA
Mercy-USA for Relief and Development is a charitable franchise with a long history of suspected terror connections. Mercy International’s Canadian branch was the subject of media scrutiny in the wake of Al-Qaeda’s 1998 East Africa bombings, with counter-terrorism analysts claiming the charity was “implicated” in the plot.
The vice-chairman of Mercy-USA is Ali El-Menshawi, a psychologist based in Florida. Despite his Hippocratic oath, Menshawi’s Facebook page is replete with support for Hamas and its military wing, the Qassam Brigades. Menshawi has also re-posted virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic screeds from an Islamist named Soliman Biheiri, seemingly the same Biheiri jailed as a Hamas fundraiser, and suspected of links to the East Africa bombings in which the Canadian branch was apparently implicated.
In more recent years, Mercy-USA and its staff remain closely involved with the Muslim American Society, the leading voice of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Previous board members of the organisation have also included Mohamed Ashmawey, who was once president of the Muslim Arab Youth Association, which, under Ashmawey’s watch, ran events at which senior Hamas leader Sheikh Muhammad Siyam told the crowd to “exterminate” all Israelis. Ashmawey has since held top leadership positions at Islamic Relief in the UK, as well as the Islamist charity Human Appeal.
Mercy-USA is extremely active in the Gaza Strip, where it is a major partner of UNRWA. USAID has been a generous patron to this extremely radical charity, with at least $7 million of grants approved for the charity, according to (inconsistent) data provided by USAspending,gov.
Muslim Aid
Muslim Aid is a leading outpost of Jamaat-e-Islami, a violent South Asian Islamist movement. In 2013, a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal sentenced to death in absentia one of the charity’s founders, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, for his role in leading a Jamaat-e-Islami killing squad that abducted and murdered 18 people during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
In 2013, USAID authorised the transfer of over $1.5 million to Muslim Aid, a sub-grant provided by “international development organisation” ACDI/VOCA. Just a few years later, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control apparently investigated Muslim Aid as a potential terror financier.
Counter-terrorism analyst Chris Blackburn writes that Muslim Aid’s Australian branch has supported jihadist-funding organisations in Indonesia. Government agencies in Bangladesh included Muslim Aid in a list of ten Islamic charities supporting Islamist terrorism. And Spanish police have declared that Muslim Aid financed jihadists in Bosnia in the 1990s.
Muslim Aid has previously admitted to funding organisations controlled by the terrorist organisation Hamas, including a grant of over $18,000 to the al-Ihsan Charitable Society, which is designated by the US government as a sponsor of terrorism.
In Pakistan, both the UK and Pakistani branches of Muslim Aid partner openly with Al-Khidmat, the “charitable” arm of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Pakistani arm. Along with openly financing Hamas, Al-Khidmat also publicly works with Hizbul Mujahedeen, a designated terrorist group in both India and the United States.
In 2009, Muslim Aid’s Pakistan branch appointed a senior official of Pakistan’s infamous, terror-connected Inter-Services Intelligence (“ISI”) as chairman of its board of trustees.
Other terrorist operatives have made use of Muslim Aid’s infrastructure. In 2012, three terrorist operatives used Muslim Aid identities to raise money for a series of suicide bombings. Although Muslim Aid was apparently unaware of this scheme, Britain’s charity regulator later censured the organisation over fears that it might be “inadvertently funding a proscribed terrorist organisation.”
Other Muslim Aid officials have included Manazir Ahsan, a leading British Islamist who helped to coordinate Islamist riots in the UK against novelist Salman Rushdie over his book, ‘The Satanic Verses’. Another key Muslim Aid official, Jafer Hussain Qureshi, mostly operates out of the UK, where he manages the affairs of the terror-connected international Islamist preacher Zakir Naik, currently on the run from law enforcement in India.
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (“PCRF”)
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is best known in counter-terrorism circles for its previous close collaboration with the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation, which the US government convicted in 2008 “on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organisation.”
In 2003, a U.S. Justice Department document noted that a Hamas website featured hyperlinks to “several United States-based charities, including Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Islamic Association of Palestine and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.”
In 2004, the New York Times quoted an Al-Qaeda supporter declaring: “‘PCRF is a front for Islamic Jihad,” another Palestinian designated terrorist group in the United States. That same year, Hamas’s Holy Land Foundation, then under investigation, applied to have its frozen funds transferred to PCRF.
According to NGO Monitor, one PCRF official ran a website that openly glorified jihad.
In Gaza, the PCRF runs the paediatric cancer unit inside Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital. During the fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military claimed to have found the hospital housed “a Hamas ‘command and control centre’ and may have been used to hold hostages.” Weapons caches were also found.
In 2016, USAID provided PCRF with a sub-grant of $90,000 dollars, provided through Catholic Relief Services.
READ Foundation
The violent South Asian Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami (“JI”) operates an enormous network of registered charities and community organisations in South Asia, Europe and North America. One of the most prominent is the Rural Education and Development (“READ”) Foundation. Although based in Pakistan, READ has offices in the United Kingdom and a network of representatives in the United States.
READ manages almost 400 schools in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistani-controlled area of the Kashmir region, as well as in nearby Pakistani rural areas. These schools teach over 120,000 students. As Canadian journalist Sonya Fatah notes, READ is part of a “complex web of organisations” run by JI. These welfare and social services agencies serve both to “gain converts in poor rural communities” and to “win votes.” READ’s “sister organisations” include the Al Khidmat Foundation and the Ghazali Education Trust, two other Pakistani charities focused on schools and education, which openly identify as JI institutions.
In 2006, JI’s own website announced that Al Khidmat had given 6 million rupees ($100,000) to Hamas for their “just Jihad.” Officials from both the Al Khidmat Foundation and the Ghazali Education Trust work closely with Syed Salahuddin, the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen, JI’s paramilitary wing. Both Salahuddin and Hizbul Mujahideen are designated as terrorists by the US government.
USAID and the State Department have provided, through intermediaries, at least $600,000 of taxpayers’ money to the READ Foundation. This money has subsidised READ Foundation schools, which encourage students to praise the actions of Mumtaz Qadri, an extremist who, in 2011, murdered Punjab governor Salman Taseer because of his public support for a Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy. A READ social media post featured a portrait of Mumtaz Qadri with a caption that states, “We are all in your debt, O messenger of Allah.”
A number of READ schools have also published photos from school ceremonies in which young children act out gun battles, reminiscent of events in the Gaza Strip under Hamas.
Tides Foundation
The Tides Foundation is a wealthy grant-making foundation which serves as a fiscal sponsor to dozens of radical organisations, including groups accused of links to Hamas and the PFLP. Tides’ influence has been keenly felt by Jewish students during recent campus protests and disruptions, which were organised by groups dependent on the Tides Foundation for funding.
In 2024, the chairman of the US Congress’s Ways and Means Committee declared the Tides Foundation was “at the centre of antisemitic incidents that have taken place across college campuses since Hamas’ attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023.”
That same year, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the Tides Foundation “bankrolled the fiscal sponsor of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic group sanctioned in the United States for providing financial support to terrorists.”
In 2022, the State Department handed the Tides Foundation over $217,000 for a project in Tunisia.
[Note: The Tides Network has also received substantial funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.]
InterAction
Founded in 1984, InterAction is the largest alliance of international non-governmental organisations (“NGOs”) in the world, comprising over 180 separate groups. InterAction members include several radical charities tied directly to criminal or terrorist activity, including several charities profiled above.
InterAction has received grants totalling tens of millions of dollars over the last decade from USAID and the State Department — $2.6 million in 2024, while it’s 2023 tax return lists over $3.7 million of “government grants.”
The most dangerous part of InterAction is its Together Project which was launched in 2017. The Together Project is a coalition of extremist-linked Islamist charities that work together under an InterAction banner. Their implicit goal seems to be to stifle criticism of Islamist charitable fronts and undermine terrorism-finance laws. In effect, InterAction has been hijacked to serve as a lobbyist for extremist networks.
The Together Project (in recent years renamed to “Civic Space”) works closely with prominent extremists, organising events, for instance, with activists such as Hatem Bazian, a Hamas-linked academic who has put forward deeply anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of American universities, and has circulated references to Jews as “ashke-nazis.”
The Together Project comprises five core Islamist charities with documented links to extremist movements: HHRD, Islamic Relief, Zakat Foundation of America, American Relief Agency for the Horn of Africa and United Muslim Relief.
The extensive terror links of Islamic Relief and HHRD are profiled above.
United Muslim Relief (“UMR”) is an international aid charity currently led by Abed Ayoub, the former President of Islamic Relief’s US branch. UMR works closely with other Hamas-financing Islamist charities such as Life for Relief and Development and Baitulmaal, which are also InterAction members.
The Zakat Foundation of America is an Al-Qaeda charitable front designated in 2002 by the US Treasury. According to Professor Ahmet S. Yayla, director of the Centre for Homeland Security at DeSales University, the Zakat Foundation is today a key component of the brutal Turkish regime’s network of proxy organisations across the United States.
These charities and the InterAction are all closely involved, logistically and financially, with an organisation named the Charity & Security Network (“CSN”).
The CSN) advocates on behalf of groups caught up in terror finance investigations, works to undermine laws countering terror finance and appears to be in charge of managing InterAction’s Together Project on behalf of terror-connected radical charities. The Together Project openly boasts of an “affiliation with the Charity & Security Network.” And CSN lists most of the Together Project’s core member charities as its own “supporting members” and funders.
CSN is an ideologically troubled organisation itself. Its head, Kay Guinane, has solicited support for Veterans for Peace, a fringe organisation known for its support for the Assad regime. Its website, to which Guinane linked, also openly propagandises for the North Korean regime.
CSN does not defend innocent Muslim charities caught up in over-zealous international terror finance regulations and the Islamist exploitation of humanitarian aid as claimed. Instead, it devotes its time to assisting the very extremists complicit in this exploitation. One of its chief preoccupations is to denounce the government’s decision to freeze the assets of recognised terror-financing groups as “a serious infringement on their right of religious expression” and claims that charities should actively be able to partner with terrorist organisations.
Disinformation operations seem to lie at the heart of InterAction’s approach. Its Together Project published a toolkit that teaches members how to control negative press by promoting “alternative messages” and “new narratives.” By tying legitimate criticism of its members to “fake news,” internet “trolls” and “bots,” and even Russian interference in the 2016 election, InterAction helps its radical members to distract and confound.
Conclusion
Over a year after the 7 October attacks, Hamas-aligned charities and associated Islamist institutions continue to operate in the US without fear of prosecution, despite clear ties to foreign terror organisations and violations of material support laws.
The security establishment’s focus has primarily been on overseas networks, with little effort to monitor or prosecute domestic Hamas-related activities since around 2008. Some federal officials have even viewed suspected Hamas activists as valuable sources in the fight against groups like the Islamic State. This leniency and lack of thorough vetting by agencies like USAID contribute to the ongoing challenges in addressing the influence of these organisations.
The transparency and vetting processes of USAID funding have led to organisations with ties to terrorism, such as the Bayader Association and Islamic Relief, receiving funds. Major charities like Catholic Relief Services and World Vision have not adequately vetted their sub-grantees, raising concerns about government funding practices.
Significant reforms are needed, including comprehensive vetting for all grantees and sub-grantees, public oversight and transparency in the funding process. Better scrutiny of publicly available information could prevent funds from reaching extremist groups. The FWI report suggests that organisations receiving USAID funds should be made to disclose detailed staff and funding information.
Featured image taken from ‘USAID – Top Donor of Terrorist Organisations’, The Burning Platform, 12 February 2025
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