Yesterday (Wednesday 24 January 2018), there was widespread media coverage of an attack on Save the Children’s offices in the Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan where four members of their team have...
...Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. International Development Secretary Priti Patel said: “Polio has no place in the 21st Century and the UK is leading the way in the last push to...
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a recent trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis We must empower young girls and provide them with the...
...one of just three countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan and Nigeria, which are yet to declare themselves officially free of wild polio. He said: “Never in my wildest dreams...
Today (Monday 4 December 2017), the BBC, Today Programme, Mail, Times and other newspapers reported on a Foreign Office aid programme in Syria run by contractor Adam Smith International (ASI)....
...£2.5 million this year. This is also incorrect – DFID has not provided any new support in 2017 to help ensure free, fair and peaceful elections in Kenya. As our...
Today’s copy (5 January) of The Times reports that the UK has ‘lied’ about ending poverty for millions of people in the poorest countries. The headline is unfair and the...
Today’s Daily Express front page story (26 October, 2017) reported on claims that the costs of health tourism should be met by the international development budget. In response DFID would...
...the Fijian Broadcasting Corporation’s website, Australian outlets ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald, Malaysian websites MalaysiaKini, Free Malaysia Today and The Sun Daily, UAE news provider The National, Singapore newspaper...
The Times today reports that “money from the overseas aid budget is to be used in the fight against child sex tourism and the growing problem of livestreamed abuse”. It...