More than 1,300 employees, including Kenyan journalists, face potential job losses after being placed on administrative leave by international media Voice of America (VOA). The mass suspension of normal service came after the termination of funding for two U.S.
news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes.
Notably, the move came just a day after President Donald Trump ordered drastic budget cuts affecting the U.S.
Agency for Global Media (USAGM) which is VOA's parent organisation, along with six other federal agencies. "This order continues the reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary," the order read. An image of the entrance of a Voice of America office.
