The money (and bribes, and graft, and rake-off) from the USAID “efforts” must be HUGE.
All 3 major TV networks are pushing the USAID program, and are showing all of the people that (might) be forced to actually fend for themselves if (when!) the United States stops giving away food as we have for decades.
The only reason I can see for the Media to be standing with USAID is that the powers that be are upset at the thought of loss of all that revenue. I find it hard to believe that any of the news anchors, or the folks in the networks really give a a shit about the dirty sand people in Sudan and other places. It has to be the amount of money that is siphoned off along the way to the points of distribution.
And direct payments TO the media…