There has been coverage in The Telegraph, The Times, the Daily Star, Jewish News and Jerusalem Post today (Wednesday 30 May) of a new UK aid package of life-saving support...
Today, the International Development Secretary gave a speech at Policy Exchange in London today (Thursday 28 June 2018) setting out how development and defence can work more closely together and...
Today (Monday 19 August), World Humanitarian Day, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma announced he would allocate £8 million of UK aid for Ebola preparedness for the countries neighbouring the DRC...
...creating an international alliance, which says not ‘winner takes all’ but the opposite which is that this is critically important for all of us.” BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme...
UK relief efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes continued this weekend with the arrival of HMS Ocean in the Turks and Caicos islands today (Sunday 1 October). So far...
There has been further media coverage today about Hurricane Maria which is hitting islands across the Caribbean. This is only the second time two category five hurricanes have been in...
The Observer reports today (29 October 2017) that Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, claims his country is being overlooked in the Hurricane Irma and Maria relief efforts...
...or natural disasters. Today’s agreement is a real step forward. Progress on this, and the other reforms we have confirmed today - including boosting aid for UN peacekeeping missions -...
Today’s newspapers feature coverage of a number projects funded by the UK’s international development budget. It comes after annual stats were published yesterday, which detail how much the UK is...
There are reports in the news today on how the UK’s international development budget could be used to tackle plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. This comes as a scientific...