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Nepal is grappling with increasingly extreme, hard‑to‑predict disasters while its resources for response dwindle. Since August, catastrophic flooding has struck the country twice along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. Development workers note that the U.S. Agency for International Development, once a steady partner in Nepal’s disaster risk reduction and humanitarian efforts, is now absent, and the U.S. response to the recent floods is limited compared with past crises. In the 2015 earthquake, USAID coordinated foreign disaster relief as the lead U.S. government agency.

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