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23 Dec 15
The UK has pledged a further £55m to support Ethiopia after a drought in the country left an estimated 18 million people in need of assistance.
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23 Dec 15
The United Nations has urged countries to provide more aid to Libya after revealing that its humanitarian response plan for the country in 2016 was yet to receive any funding.
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22 Dec 15
The International Monetary Fund is to release a further $10.2m to support the economy in Liberia following the impact of the Ebola virus outbreak and the decline in global commodity prices.
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22 Dec 15
The World Bank has confirmed a $1bn loan will be made to Egypt to support a reform programme being undertaken in collaboration with the African Development Bank that includes reductions in government...
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21 Dec 15
Peace talks intended to end the conflict in Yemen have been stopped less than a week after they started following numerous reports of breaches in the agreed ceasefire.
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21 Dec 15
The United States Agency for International Development has announced $88m in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to help alleviate the country’s massive food crisis.
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18 Dec 15
The African Development Bank will loan Egypt $500m to support a programme of fiscal reforms in the country, as well as steps to improve the energy sector and business environment.
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18 Dec 15
An agreement has been reached to unify the two rival governments of Libya at UN-backed peace talks in Morocco.
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17 Dec 15
A number of international actors this week voiced grave concerns about an impending descent into catastrophic violence in Burundi and called for urgent action.
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16 Dec 15
United Nations-sponsored talks to resolve conflict and establish a ceasefire in Yemen kicked off in Geneva yesterday with the declaration that parties had agreed to suspend hostilities.
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16 Dec 15
Nine in ten of the registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan are either poor now or expected to be poor in the future and live on the margins of society with few legal rights or access to services...
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16 Dec 15
The United States has announced $173m worth of emergency food assistance for South Sudan to help 2.4 million people facing life-threatening hunger in the country.
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15 Dec 15
China and Lebanon have been approved to become shareholders of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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14 Dec 15
Italy is to contribute €4.7m to the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund.
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14 Dec 15
Public finance reforms in Madagascar are to receive a $55m helping hand from the World Bank.
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11 Dec 15
UK international development minister Nick Hurd has called for a global response to the increasingly desperate situation in Ethiopia.
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11 Dec 15
The African Development Bank has approved $18.34m in grants to support public financial management reforms in Chad.
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9 Dec 15
United Nations agencies and their partners have launched an appeal for almost $2bn to provide crucial assistance to people in Africa’s Sahel region for 2016.
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8 Dec 15
The US’s Power Africa and the UK’s Energy Africa campaigns will be joining forces to help people on the continent gain access to clean energy.
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8 Dec 15
The European Investment Bank has approved a $600m loan towards the construction of a power plant in Egypt that will help the country secure a sufficient, reliable and affordable energy supply.
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7 Dec 15
The World Health Organisation is looking to step up its health support in Ethiopia in response to health risks following droughts caused by this year’s El Niño weather phenomenon.
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4 Dec 15
Three more African countries have signed up to the UK’s Energy Africa campaign, which aims to improve household access to power across the continent by expanding the use of solar power.
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2 Dec 15
Africa is on the brink of a major housing crisis unless it can carve a targeted approach to housing, lending and land policies, the World Bank has warned.
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2 Dec 15
The African Development Bank has reached a settlement with Japanese firm Hitachi after two of its subsidiaries were alleged to have paid bribes to win contracts for work on an AfDB-funded project.
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2 Dec 15
The European Union is to devote more than half a billion euros to managing the Syrian refugee crisis and supporting the Middle Eastern countries where many have fled.
23 Dec 15The UK has pledged a further £55m to support Ethiopia after a drought in the country left an estimated 18 million people in need of assistance.
23 Dec 15The United Nations has urged countries to provide more aid to Libya after revealing that its humanitarian response plan for the country in 2016 was yet to receive any funding.
22 Dec 15The International Monetary Fund is to release a further $10.2m to support the economy in Liberia following the impact of the Ebola virus outbreak and the decline in global commodity prices.
22 Dec 15The World Bank has confirmed a $1bn loan will be made to Egypt to support a reform programme being undertaken in collaboration with the African Development Bank that includes reductions in government...
21 Dec 15Peace talks intended to end the conflict in Yemen have been stopped less than a week after they started following numerous reports of breaches in the agreed ceasefire.
21 Dec 15The United States Agency for International Development has announced $88m in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to help alleviate the country’s massive food crisis.
18 Dec 15The African Development Bank will loan Egypt $500m to support a programme of fiscal reforms in the country, as well as steps to improve the energy sector and business environment.
17 Dec 15A number of international actors this week voiced grave concerns about an impending descent into catastrophic violence in Burundi and called for urgent action.
16 Dec 15Nine in ten of the registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan are either poor now or expected to be poor in the future and live on the margins of society with few legal rights or access to services...
16 Dec 15The United States has announced $173m worth of emergency food assistance for South Sudan to help 2.4 million people facing life-threatening hunger in the country.
15 Dec 15China and Lebanon have been approved to become shareholders of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
14 Dec 15Italy is to contribute €4.7m to the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund.
14 Dec 15Public finance reforms in Madagascar are to receive a $55m helping hand from the World Bank.
11 Dec 15The African Development Bank has approved $18.34m in grants to support public financial management reforms in Chad.
8 Dec 15The US’s Power Africa and the UK’s Energy Africa campaigns will be joining forces to help people on the continent gain access to clean energy.
2 Dec 15Africa is on the brink of a major housing crisis unless it can carve a targeted approach to housing, lending and land policies, the World Bank has warned.
2 Dec 15The African Development Bank has reached a settlement with Japanese firm Hitachi after two of its subsidiaries were alleged to have paid bribes to win contracts for work on an AfDB-funded project.
2 Dec 15The European Union is to devote more than half a billion euros to managing the Syrian refugee crisis and supporting the Middle Eastern countries where many have fled.
