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UK to challenge ‘malign actors’ with new aid strategy

The UK will use international aid to “challenge malign actors” and create new trading partners, the Foreign Office has announced. Under the new International Development Strategy published on Monday, setting out how the UK will use its reduced aid ...

16 May 2022 at 12:25

Minister: UK has relationship with African people while China focuses on elites

Britain has a “relationship with the people of Africa” while China only focuses on the elites, a Foreign Office minister said. Andrew Mitchell, development minister, said on Monday there is a “competition” in Africa between the West on one hand ...

24 Apr 2023 at 14:15

Geldof urged Blair to take international lead on aid for Africa

Bob Geldof urged Tony Blair to take the lead in overhauling the system of international development aid for Africa as he considered African leadership on the issue to be “very weak”, according to newly released government files. The LiveAid ...

31 Dec 2024 at 00:01

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MSP group seeks transparency on Scottish Government’s international aid funds

A cross-party group of MSPs has launched an investigation into the Scottish Government’s international aid funds, saying there is a lack of transparency. The Cross-Party Group on International Development says concerns have been raised ...

03 Apr 2024 at 06:33

MPs insist UK aid for at-risk women and girls must be reinstated

The UK can no longer be considered a “global aid superpower” as failures on funding commitments will lead to thousands of women and girls dying in pregnancy or childbirth, according to MPs. A report by the cross-party International ...

25 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Charities claim UK ‘putting politics before poverty’ in new aid strategy

International charities have accused the Government’s new aid strategy of being “more concerned with tackling China than tackling poverty”. Under the new International Development Strategy published on Monday, the Government said ...

16 May 2022 at 15:55

Bono calls on the UK to ‘lead’ the world again

U2 frontman Bono has urged the UK to start leading the world again after claiming the Government has been overtaken by “free market fundamentalists”. The Irish singer praised successive UK governments for helping tackle world ...

17 Oct 2022 at 11:16

World

Hungary’s Orban ‘to close down’ pro-democracy and rights groups receiving US aid

Hungary will take legal action to eliminate non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and media outlets operating in the country that receive funding from the United States and other international sources, Prime Minister Viktor ...

07 Feb 2025 at 09:27

Aid cuts see UK fall out of top five in global development rankings

The UK’s commitment to international development has weakened thanks to aid cuts and less focus on poverty reduction, an international think tank has said. The Centre for Global Development said that, while the UK had once ...

13 Sept 2023 at 05:00

World

Judge blocks Trump from placing 2,200 US aid agency workers on paid leave

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the US Agency for International Development on paid leave. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by President ...

07 Feb 2025 at 23:01

UK aid commitment ‘remains steadfast’ despite US funding freeze, says minister

The UK’s commitment to international aid “remains steadfast” despite the Trump administration’s pause on aid spending, the development minister has said. Anneliese Dodds told reporters on Thursday that the ...

06 Feb 2025 at 16:47

World

Forced leave starts for thousands under Trump plan to gut foreign aid agency

Forced leave began worldwide on Friday for most employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), as federal workers’ associations turned to the courts to try to roll orders that have ...

07 Feb 2025 at 14:31

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