Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery
UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies Food aid...
Category : Aid
UK government under fire for investing overseas aid in fossil fuel firms
Taxpayer’s money also going to companies found to be flouting human rights in Kenya and DRC, says Commons committee The UK government is under attack...
UK funding cuts to east Africa ‘insulting and shortsighted’, say aid organisations
NGOs dismayed at reduction in Britain’s contribution as crisis-hit region faces challenges from drought, rising prices and conflict The UK has been accused of taking...
Race against time to stop ‘humanitarian disaster’ among Sudan refugees in Chad
Coming rainy season threatens 80,000 living in ‘heartbreaking’ conditions in vulnerable border region after fleeing war at home Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, many...
Aid agencies in Sudan plead with factions to allow supplies to reach needy
Six trucks of humanitarian supplies looted while airstrikes in Khartoum undermine ceasefire Aid agencies are pleading with battling factions in Sudan to allow humanitarian assistance...
Humanitarian aid ‘impossible’ as fighting in Sudan traps millions
Hopes of 24-hour ceasefire to evacuate civilians and wounded after US secretary of state intervenes A major aid organisation says it is nearly impossible to...
IMF calls for ‘another Gleneagles moment’ on debt relief and aid
Package similar to 2005 deal needed as struggling African countries suffer severe funding squeeze, says official Western countries need to put together a debt relief...
Britain spends three times more aid on housing refugees than it sends to Africa
Foreign Office figures show aid to Africa fell to £1.1bn in 2022, compared with £3.7bn of budget spent on refugees in UK The UK spent...
Haiti faces ‘hunger emergency’ amid escalating gang violence and surging inflation
Acute hunger is affecting 4.9 million Haitians, according to a UN report, which outlines the increased need for humanitarian aid Haitians are increasingly desperate for...
Former development secretaries urge Sunak to increase east Africa aid amid drought
‘Famine in all but name’ ravaging Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, yet British aid is one-fifth of 2017 amount The UK urgently needs to do more...
