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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...
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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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16 Dec 15
Government donors have pledged the highest ever initial amount for the United Nations refugee agency at a conference in Geneva today.
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16 Dec 15
A European border and coastguard agency will be established to police the region’s external borders in a bid to better manage the refugee crisis, the European Commission has announced.
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16 Dec 15
Increased capital spending in Indonesia could spur higher growth in the country in 2016, the World Bank has said.
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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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15 Dec 15
The Inter-American Development Bank will loan Chile $130m to fight corruption and increase transparency in public spending, including procurement.
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15 Dec 15
Portugal’s foreign aid budget is dwindling and action is needed to stop it declining further, an OECD review has found.
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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
A landmark deal to tackle climate change agreed at the COP21 summit in Paris over the weekend is a “monumental triumph”, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said.
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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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10 Dec 15
The Asian Development Bank has announced it will draw on government-backed and private sector sources to provide $1bn of funding for India’s renewable energy sector.
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10 Dec 15
More countries are getting closer to eliminating malaria and saving millions of dollars in healthcare costs, the World Health Organisation has said. However, funding will have to increase almost...
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9 Dec 15
A “high ambition coalition” consisting of more than 100 countries has called for a climate deal that is both as strong as possible and legally binding.
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9 Dec 15
The World Bank has announced a $2bn five-year partnership with Bolivia, which it says will benefit 4.5 million people in the country.
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9 Dec 15
China could lose 90 million workers by 2040 as its population ages, the World Bank has warned. Wealthier economies across East Asia are set to see their working-age populations shrink by as much as...
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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.