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1 Feb 16
USAID has announced almost $100m in additional food assistance for drought-stricken communities in Ethiopia, who are still suffering from the impact of a powerful El Niño.
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1 Feb 16
The $5.8bn in funds pledged by global leaders for Ebola recovery have been slow to materialise and are almost impossible to track, Oxfam has warned.
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29 Jan 16
The African Development Bank is to provide a $1m emergency grant to help Burundian refugees in Rwanda.
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28 Jan 16
The United Nations has appealed for $393m to fund the work of humanitarian agencies in Afghanistan, but warned the reduction in funds compared to 2015 meant action would be limited to the “most...
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28 Jan 16
UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
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27 Jan 16
The United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has been accused by Israel of “encouraging terror” after he condemned the construction of Israeli settlements as an affront to the Palestinian people...
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27 Jan 16
An arms embargo should be placed on South Sudan and the country’s president and rebel leader should be sanctioned over atrocities, a United Nations panel that monitors the conflict has said.
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26 Jan 16
The United Nations refugee agency and its partners have called for more than half a billion dollars this year to help those fleeing conflicts in Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
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25 Jan 16
The UK has pledged £30m in new aid funding to help those arriving in Europe after escaping the brutal conflict in Syria, the country’s international development secretary announced on Friday.
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22 Jan 16
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has condemned a move by Israel to claim 370 acres of land in the occupied West Bank as a “violation of international law”.
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21 Jan 16
The African Development Bank has approved two substantial loans to support agriculture in Uganda and Cameroon.
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21 Jan 16
At least $41m is needed to help half of the population of the Central African Republic – amounting to 2.5 million people – who are facing hunger, the World Food Programme has warned.
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21 Jan 16
The European Commission has announced €77m in funding for the Horn of Africa, with aid reaching Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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20 Jan 16
The United Nations special representative for Iraq has called on the international community to step up its support to the nation following revelations of a “staggering” civilian death toll and...
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20 Jan 16
The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
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19 Jan 16
The humanitarian community is today appealing for $1.3bn in aid for South Sudan and $885m for Somalia, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced.
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19 Jan 16
Libya’s presidential council has announced the formation of a United Nations-backed government of national accord, after reports of disputes left some worried the plans might derail.
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19 Jan 16
The World Bank has launched a UK-funded programme to improve evidence-based policy making and data literacy in Sudan.
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18 Jan 16
The World Bank has approved a $100m loan to support infrastructure and local development in Gabon.
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18 Jan 16
International sanctions on Iran were lifted over the weekend after the United Nations nuclear watchdog confirmed the country had complied with obligations under the US-led nuclear accord, agreed last...
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15 Jan 16
The African Development Bank has approved a $76.11m loan to help deliver a sustainable water supply and sanitation to four towns in Ethiopia.
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15 Jan 16
A United Nations app that allows users to donate through via their smart phone has achieved its first goal of ensuring 20,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan have vital nutrition at school for one year.
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15 Jan 16
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, less than a day after the three countries worst hit by the outbreak in West Africa were declared to be free of the virus simultaneously.
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14 Jan 16
Ghana will have to undertake a wide range of ambitious fiscal and public financial management reforms to keep its economy on the right track, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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14 Jan 16
All three of the west African countries hardest hit by Ebola are currently free of the virus for the first time since the start of the epidemic two years ago, after the most recent outbreak of the...