Business in hotels, car rental and shops-to the nail bar-has decreased in the aid-based areas in Kenya in the weeks that Donald Trump attached funding to the United States Agency for International Development, revealing the extent of American assistance rolling into the economies of the beneficiary countries.

The repercussions of the financing suspension of the 90 -day American president confirmed the degree of health care and parts of Kenya’s economy, a regional center for international assistance efforts with a vast sector of NGOs, by America.

Last week, a US federal judge issued a temporary registration that challenges Trump’s executive order to suspend all external aid, but amid uncertainty, tens of thousands of Kenyan and foreign relief workers were placed on an unpaid vacation.

While some low -income African countries were relatively more difficult, the damage to one of the most American allies on the continent, and what was in some respects, was clear.

Ally Edes, founder of the water and AIDS safe project, who runs many projects in Kisumo on the beaches of Lake Victoria, said where Barack Obama’s father witnessed the Kenyan.

Illfeld said that companies in Kisumo have knocked on the number of people working in projects funded by the United States, especially the anti -endemic AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Elfeld said that hotels reject reservations for NGO workers, for fear that they will not be able to settle their bills. She added that employees working in the United States’ projects have started to withdraw children from school, give up rental real estate and go to another place.

In the capital, Nairobi, I also felt the effects. In addition to Swagger in the entrepreneurship that came with the prosperous technology and operations sector, the city’s site has turned regional relief efforts that merged its transformation into a global city, which sparked growth in the professional class.

Hundreds of expatriate relief workers, whether they work directly or indirectly by the United States Agency for International Development, suffer without pay, are not sure of education for their children, and in some cases about to leave the country.

Real estate agents expect a decrease in the lease markets in the lush neighborhoods in Nairobi, while financial analysts expected a simple softening in the value of the shillings.

In 2023, last year in which official data was completed, Kenya received $ 850 million in US aid, and more than 230 projects supported varying degrees.

Projects in higher education, hospitality training for orphans, drought and sewage of water, all stopped at the Trump pen blow. Banks refuse to provide emergency loans, not certain if the tap will restart it.

The Agency has signed an increasing percentage of its work to the Kenyan organizations, many of which were not prepared to survive for three months without basic financing.

The most difficult blow was health care, which received $ 402 million in nearly half of the US financing.

According to Dr. Roth Leibon Mashha, who runs the National Council for Disease Control in Nairobi, 41,500 people working in the prevention of AIDS, treatment and other public health areas were affected at first.

About 10 percent was allowed to return to work thanks to the waiver that allows life -saving humanitarian assistance, leaving about 37,000 on the unnecessary leave.

The Kenyans were wondering how governments allowed their country to become vulnerable to the whims of the US presidency.

Leibon Mashha said that many Kenyan who were subjected to highly trained medical staff from public sector to American programs such as Pippar, the Emergency Program for the US President for AIDS, which was held during the era of former US President George W. Bush.

She said: “Our own ability has eroded, but we did not mind at that stage because the advantages of health care are still coming to us.”

Leibon Masha added that the Kenyan government has not given any notice of the design of local delivery systems or a medium -term supply of life -saving drugs, especially anti -virus.

Trump and his ally, Elon Musk, demanded funding for the US International Development Agency, who used to pay the “radical left” agenda, and to be disposed of by alleged corrupt officials.

Leibon Masha said that the risks offered by unexpected cuts reached “injustice of human rights.”

The United Nations agencies were tight on how they were affected, amid confusion about the future of its American financing.

Many United Nations agencies are receiving grants from the United States Agency for International Development at the top of the basic financing from Washington. For example, the World Food Program in Kenya received 121 million pounds last year, according to official data.

According to an American citizen contracted by the US Agency for International Development, the chaos caused by Trump’s guidance has led to food aid cultivated by American farmers who spoil in East Africa ports, and in some countries in ARVS.

He said part of the problem is that the communications have collapsed. Even organizations that provide life -saving support, subject to concession, have struggled to reach money since the United States Agency for International Development was placed under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “We have no idea how to secure this money,” he said.

In the direct semester, government spokesperson, Isaac Mora, said that the country was bound by a limited financial hall, with seven out of every 10 Kenyan shillings to pay its external debt by $ 45 billion.

He said that there are other donors, especially from the Scandinavian countries, ready to enter the breach in the event of freezing and carrying aid from Trump in the US courts.

However, in the future, with a completely multilateral system, countries such as Kenya will have to work more hard to gain their retention “and re -calibrates external relations to ensure better service to the national interest.

“We say we do not look east. We do not look at the West. We are looking forward.