The administration of US President Donald Trump recently said it was terminating US-funded projects worldwide that do not align with the administration’s America First policy.

It said it was eliminating more than 90 per cent of the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall US assistance around the world.

“In the changing world order, Africa must wean itself from the disease of aid dependency,” says Father Stan Chu Ilo, a research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago.