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State Department Weighs Human Rights Grant Focused on Afrikaners in South Africa

ProPublica reporting shows Trump administration officials proposed funneling leftover foreign aid money into research on crime against white South Africans.

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“It’s laughable to suggest that on the African continent, the prime issue of human rights concern is whites in South Africa.”— Former State Department official, Former agency official on human rights · ProPublica
Trump administration Executive branch overseeing foreign aid decisionsBureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) State Department bureau managing the grantsLex Libertas Grant recipient candidate, Afrikaner advocacy group+2
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