India tells Britain: We don't want your aid India's Finance Minister describes British financial aid as "peanuts".
Awareness of African hospital A DOCUMENTARY maker has produced a video to raise awareness of an African nation’s first bike marathon in aid two children’s charities.
Emerging donors chip away at aid industry's status quo Jan 26 (AlertNet) - Where most expat aid workers fear to tread in Mogadishu, recently arrived Turkish aid workers have been driving in the streets, swimming in the sea and praying in local mosques. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Somalia in August, the first head of a non-African state to do so for nearly 20 years. The Turks have since opened an embassy, started work on the ...
Hubris may snare Senegal's wily "Hare" Wade DAKAR (Reuters) - "I will tread on no corpses to get to the presidential palace," Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade once declared from the opposition benches in a famous pledge to win power by democratic means. But 12 years after he gained the presidency of the West African nation through the ballot box at his fifth attempt, riots over the octogenarian leader's bid for re-election in an upcoming February ...
Advice agencies in crisis: 'We will just disappear. No one will notice' | Fiona Bawdon While campaigners will fight for agencies such as Citizens Advice Bureaux, who will fight for smaller organisations? Advice agencies – which provide a lifeline to people in debt, or facing problems with their benefits or housing – are under financial pressure as never before. Demand for services is increasing, at a time when impending changes to legal aid threaten to remove funding for large ...
Oxfam launches emerging market small business fund LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Aid agency Oxfam haslaunched a new fund aimed at helping small-and-medium sizedenterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, in conjunction withasset management company Symbiotics. ...
CAFOD at 50 - much achieved but no room for complacency "Although so much has been achieved we can never be complacent. There remains much to be done. One billion people still live in abject poverty" - Bishop John Arnold.  More than 2,500 CAFOD supporters from across England and Wales gathered at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday afternoon for a special Mass of Thanksgiving to mark the 50th anniversary of
Queen Frontman To Be Former 'idol' Winner Adam Lambert? Adam Lambert has claimed that hell be fronting a reunited Queen as it was reported that the rock legends will be headlining the UKs Sonisphere Festival this coming summer As frontman of Queen Freddie Mercury established himself as one of the greatest s...
Insight: Africa "black diamond" spenders show their luster JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI (Reuters)- With a taste for Jimmy Choo shoes and Hermes handbags, Choice Okoro's idea of shopping is a world away from her mother's.
Tunisia's economy still awaits post-revolt bounce TUNIS (Reuters) - Last May, a public relations agency hired by Tunisia's government placed an advertisement in some of the world's leading newspapers and business magazines. "Invest in Democracy," read the tagline. The thinking behind the ads was to attract foreign investment and revive the economy by harnessing the feel-good factor attached to Tunisia after it ousted its autocratic leader ...
The world 'dithered while thousands died in Africa' Thousands of lives and millions of pounds were lost because of a 'dangerous delay' in the response to the East Africa famine, a report claimed today.
Braving Burundi: extract from Crazy River Following in the footsteps of the great 19th-century explorers for his new book, Crazy River, Richard Grant travelled to Burundi to experience life in the poorest, most corrupt country in the world
10 Neglected Tropical Diseases - Target For End Of Decade The aim is to eliminate or at least control 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020 - it is a public and private partnership, including 13 drug companies, the UK, US and United Arab Emirate Governments, the World Bank, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and some other worldwide organizations. The partners aim to work together to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in countries where ...
UK to protect 140 million people from tropical diseases Britain will supply more than four treatments every second for people in the developing world for the next four years as part of a global push to help eliminate infectious tropical diseases, International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien announced today.
'In 10 years' time, Ghana may not require any aid at all' Ghana is one of Africa's great successes – a stable and thriving country that is testament to the impact of aid. As pressure on these budgets grows, Observer editor John Mulholland travels to the country to assess its progress Early last Sunday morning on a plane ride from the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to the northern town of Tamale, Jeffrey Sachs – director of the Earth Institute research group ...
Mo Farah: The only way I get to see my wife is with skype Mo Farah could be forgiven for feeling jaded. It has been some week and it's showing few signs of slowing down.
Overseas aid: why the west gains from investing in Africa's future | Observer editorial Transparency and tangible results are the best weapons with which to engage the aid sceptics It is no great surprise at a time of domestic economic strain that the British government's overseas aid programme should come under increased scrutiny. And it is right that critics of the UK's aid programme should demand greater transparency about where the money is going and what the outcomes are. Aid ...
Asians in Britain A new learning resource, Asians in Britain[1] produced by the British Library[2], explores the contribution that South Asians have made to Britain's cultural, social and economic life.
North East News: Washington couple’s mission to build a hospital in Africa A DOCTOR and his wife are on a mission to raise more than £750,000 to build a hospital in one of the poorest countries in the world.
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