The U.S. is officially cancelling 83% of the programs at the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID), said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday. “After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.

The remaining programmes - just 18% - will now be administered by the State Department. Humanitarian organisations around the world have warned that the controversial move to end long-running US aid programmes is already having dire consequences around the world,

Rubio said he would move the 18 percent of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.