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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

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 it would spend ...

16 May 2022 at 15:55

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 ...

24 Apr 2023 at 14:15

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 been the ...

13 Sept 2023 at 05:00

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 ...

25 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Scotland

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 ...

03 Apr 2024 at 06:33

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 ...

17 Oct 2022 at 11:16

Charities urge Government to stop aid budget falling to 17-year low

Overseas aid spending could fall to its lowest level since 2007 unless the Government takes action at the Budget in October, a coalition of charities has warned. Leaders of 122 UK charities including ...

18 Sept 2024 at 13:25

Lammy says defence spending ‘saves lives’ after criticism of aid cuts

Spending money on defence can still save lives around the world, the Foreign Secretary said as he faced criticism over cuts to the international aid budget. David Lammy told the Lords International ...

30 Apr 2025 at 16:53

World

Democrats hit back after Musk says Trump has agreed to close aid agency

Democrats have condemned the Trump administration’s attempts to gut an agency that provides aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease, calling it illegal and vowing to fight ...

03 Feb 2025 at 20:17

World

Trump administration firing 2,000 USAid workers and putting thousands on leave

The Trump administration said on Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) on leave worldwide and eliminating 2,000 ...

23 Feb 2025 at 22:55

City

Dodds hails City efforts to tackle climate crisis and aid growth in Global South

Development minister Anneliese Dodds has hailed efforts from UK investors to boost growth and address the climate crisis in the Global South. Speaking at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) ...

03 Feb 2025 at 13:01

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