Dar es Salaam, Feb. 8 --  US: A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from placing 2,200 workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen.

Judge Carl Nichols issued a “limited” temporary restraining order, in response to a last-minute lawsuit filed by two unions trying to save the agency.

The order will remain in place for a week, until 14 February at midnight.

Separately, on Saturday, another federal judge blocked Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing Treasury Department records that include the personal financial data of millions of Americans, US media reported.

Trump has argued that USAID, the over...