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12 Jan 16
Deliveries of humanitarian aid have finally reached the besieged towns in Syria where people have reportedly been starving to death after being cut off by pro-government or opposition forces.
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8 Jan 16
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has denounced the decision of the Yemeni government to expel the UN human rights representative from the war-torn country.
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8 Jan 16
The European Investment Bank has priced up two of its bonds this week, one of which amounts to the largest ever issue by a supranational institution in the GBP market.
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8 Jan 16
American international development agency USAID has announced partnerships with two US companies to fight multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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8 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank approved a total of $27.15bn in funding in 2015 – an all-time high and a 19% increase on the year before.
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7 Jan 16
The European Union is to spend €1bn on programmes to support social and economic development in regions on both sides of its external borders.
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7 Jan 16
Increased conflict, new security threats and climate change are rapidly changing the global development landscape, the British aid watchdog has said.
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6 Jan 16
The World Bank has approved $277m in financing for Bangladesh to help 19.5 million children complete primary school and increase the country’s low-cost energy supply.
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6 Jan 16
Civilians in Yemen continue to suffer a “terrible toll” as fighting continues into the new year following a short-lived ceasefire in late December, the United Nations has said.
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5 Jan 16
An already stressed global humanitarian system will come under unprecedented strain this year as it struggles to cope with the fallout of extreme weather and war, Oxfam has warned.
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5 Jan 16
European countries and members of the OECD must pick up the slack in their aid funding to Syria and surrounding countries, UK parliamentarians have said.
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4 Jan 16
Overseas development assistance from wealthy governments hit an all-time high of $137.2bn in 2014, official figures have confirmed, however, aid to the group of Least Developed Countries and to sub-...
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4 Jan 16
Guinea was declared Ebola free last week after no new cases were reported for 42 days.
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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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17 Dec 15
The Asian Development Bank has approved a suite of reforms which it says will bring in a “stronger, better and faster” ADB.
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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...