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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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2 Feb 16
The World Health Organisation has today declared an international health emergency in response to the clusters of brain-damaged babies suspected to be linked to the spread of Zika virus.
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2 Feb 16
A draft agreement to reform the UK’s relationship with the European Union published today would allow Britain to restrict in-work benefits for European migrants as part of an “emergency...
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2 Feb 16
A colonial-era tax treaty between Malawi and the UK is costing the African country significant amounts of lost tax revenue and must be reformed, the charity ActionAid said today.
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2 Feb 16
The United Nations emergency response fund has released $100m for severely under-funded aid operations in nine neglected emergencies across Africa and in North Korea.
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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 latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
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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 head of the United Nations’ refugee agency has warned any policies of “control and closure” in Europe to tackle the refugee crisis would be “dangerous”.
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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
More than thirty countries have today signed an agreement that enables the automatic sharing of country-by-country financial reports from multinational companies.
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28 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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28 Jan 16
The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
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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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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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27 Jan 16
Over two-thirds of countries have been judged to have corruption problems, the latest review by Transparency International has found, but many nations have made improvements in the last year.
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27 Jan 16
The Danish parliament has voted to pass controversial laws enabling the confiscation of money and valuables from asylum seekers to help pay for their stay in the country.
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...
2 Feb 16The World Health Organisation has today declared an international health emergency in response to the clusters of brain-damaged babies suspected to be linked to the spread of Zika virus.
2 Feb 16A draft agreement to reform the UK’s relationship with the European Union published today would allow Britain to restrict in-work benefits for European migrants as part of an “emergency...
2 Feb 16A colonial-era tax treaty between Malawi and the UK is costing the African country significant amounts of lost tax revenue and must be reformed, the charity ActionAid said today.
2 Feb 16The United Nations emergency response fund has released $100m for severely under-funded aid operations in nine neglected emergencies across Africa and in North Korea.
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 latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
29 Jan 16The African Development Bank is to provide a $1m emergency grant to help Burundian refugees in Rwanda.
29 Jan 16The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency has warned any policies of “control and closure” in Europe to tackle the refugee crisis would be “dangerous”.
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 16More than thirty countries have today signed an agreement that enables the automatic sharing of country-by-country financial reports from multinational companies.
28 Jan 16The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
28 Jan 16The 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...
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.
27 Jan 16Over two-thirds of countries have been judged to have corruption problems, the latest review by Transparency International has found, but many nations have made improvements in the last year.
27 Jan 16The Danish parliament has voted to pass controversial laws enabling the confiscation of money and valuables from asylum seekers to help pay for their stay in the country.
