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In fairness, the number of needs around the world are utterly unprecedented – the number of displaced persons around the world unprecedented since Hitler and World War II. The number of conflicts happening around the world unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. So I think countries, donors are struggling to take fixed budgets and figure out how to allocate them in a way that reaches people in need, as best they can.

CNN traveled with USAID Administrator Samantha Power to Eastern Chad. The U.S. is giving more than $100 million to support the over one million people displaced by the war across Sudan and in neighboring countries.

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an initial $103 million in additional humanitarian assistance to support Sudan and neighboring countries experiencing the impacts of the crisis. The new funding includes $8 million for the Central African Republic, as well as $17 million for Chad, $6 million for Egypt, $22 million for South Sudan, and $50 million for Sudan, to help meet increased humanitarian needs resulting from the ongoing crisis.

The United States will continue to stand with the people of Chad, both as they open their arms to Sudanese refugees fleeing horrific circumstances, and as the people of Chad pursue a democratic and more prosperous future for themselves.

Well, right now around the world, there are more than 500 journalists who are in detention of some kind. And just in the last year, 67 journalists have been killed while doing their work. This is a growing phenomenon, it’s a growing problem as countries become more repressive, as corrupt actors want to hide what they're doing, they lash out at journalists. And one of the things we realized is that lately, the tactic is to actually bankrupt journalists as well as to detain them. And so what we're launching today is called Reporters Shield, it's an insurance fund that will allow journalists who may not have the means to compete with a repressive government or an oligarch to actually have the insurance and the legal protection that they need in order to fight back and stay in business – stay in the business of holding accountable those actors who are trying to steal and repress their people.