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4 Feb 16
Commitments worth more than $2bn and focused on advancing job opportunities and economic development in the countries neighbouring Syria have been made in the third round of pledges at today’s...
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3 Feb 16
The rate of young refugees arriving in Europe has dramatically increased since last year, with one in three of those arriving now being children, UNICEF has warned.
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3 Feb 16
A £4.5m UK aid package will fund the “last push” in the eradication of Guinea worm, the country’s Department for International Development has declared.
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3 Feb 16
The government of Nigeria has appealed for a $1bn budget support loan from the African Development Bank and for greater collaboration on its development priorities.
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2 Feb 16
A United Nations-backed humanitarian appeal for Libya has achieved barely 1% of its needed funding almost two months after its launch, a senior UN official for the North African country warned today...
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1 Feb 16
Small, middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritise investments that generate wide economic benefits and rationalise regulations that hinder the private sector in order to...
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1 Feb 16
Ethiopia has become the seventh African country to sign up to the UK’s Energy Africa campaign, which aims to capitalise on solar power to accelerate universal energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
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1 Feb 16
Against the backdrop of tentative peace talks, donors and the humanitarian community are preparing for a major conference on the Syrian crisis later this week.
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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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29 Jan 16
The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
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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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28 Jan 16
India and the World Bank have agreed finance deals worth $575m that are intended to support the country’s disaster resilience and health services.
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26 Jan 16
The security and stability challenges the European Union faces require closer, better coordinated collective action, according to the commissioner for international cooperation and development.
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26 Jan 16
The United Nations has warned that the health consequences of El Niño are likely to continue throughout 2016 and urged governments to invest now in preparedness to prevent unnecessary deaths,...
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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
Three of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies and senior representatives from philanthropic and insurance organisations have called for a “paradigm shift” in the world’s approach to humanitarian...
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25 Jan 16
A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
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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
Cambodia must tackle its skills gap and boost productivity if the country is to maintain its impressive growth, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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21 Jan 16
Foreign direct investment into industrialised nations pushed global FDI to an eight-year high in 2015, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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21 Jan 16
The UK’s Department for International Development needs to be better placed to ensure value for money in its response to fluid, long-term crises, the country’s public spending watchdog has said.
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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...
4 Feb 16Commitments worth more than $2bn and focused on advancing job opportunities and economic development in the countries neighbouring Syria have been made in the third round of pledges at today’s...
3 Feb 16The rate of young refugees arriving in Europe has dramatically increased since last year, with one in three of those arriving now being children, UNICEF has warned.
3 Feb 16A £4.5m UK aid package will fund the “last push” in the eradication of Guinea worm, the country’s Department for International Development has declared.
3 Feb 16The government of Nigeria has appealed for a $1bn budget support loan from the African Development Bank and for greater collaboration on its development priorities.
2 Feb 16A United Nations-backed humanitarian appeal for Libya has achieved barely 1% of its needed funding almost two months after its launch, a senior UN official for the North African country warned today...
1 Feb 16Small, middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritise investments that generate wide economic benefits and rationalise regulations that hinder the private sector in order to...
1 Feb 16Ethiopia has become the seventh African country to sign up to the UK’s Energy Africa campaign, which aims to capitalise on solar power to accelerate universal energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
1 Feb 16Against the backdrop of tentative peace talks, donors and the humanitarian community are preparing for a major conference on the Syrian crisis later this week.
1 Feb 16USAID 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.
1 Feb 16The $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.
29 Jan 16The African Development Bank is to provide a $1m emergency grant to help Burundian refugees in Rwanda.
29 Jan 16The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
28 Jan 16UK 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...
28 Jan 16India and the World Bank have agreed finance deals worth $575m that are intended to support the country’s disaster resilience and health services.
26 Jan 16The security and stability challenges the European Union faces require closer, better coordinated collective action, according to the commissioner for international cooperation and development.
26 Jan 16The 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.
25 Jan 16Three of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies and senior representatives from philanthropic and insurance organisations have called for a “paradigm shift” in the world’s approach to humanitarian...
25 Jan 16A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
21 Jan 16The African Development Bank has approved two substantial loans to support agriculture in Uganda and Cameroon.
21 Jan 16At 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.
21 Jan 16Cambodia must tackle its skills gap and boost productivity if the country is to maintain its impressive growth, the Asian Development Bank has said.
21 Jan 16Foreign direct investment into industrialised nations pushed global FDI to an eight-year high in 2015, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
21 Jan 16The UK’s Department for International Development needs to be better placed to ensure value for money in its response to fluid, long-term crises, the country’s public spending watchdog has said.
20 Jan 16The 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...
