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...
...is today upping its ambition. Previously, we committed to ending FGM in a generation. Today we are calling on everyone to get behind the global ambition to end FGM by...
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...
The Telegraph has today (Saturday 3 November) reported in its print and online editions that DFID has provided £3million in support to environmental charity ClientEarth, despite its Chief Executive becoming...
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...
...tirelessly to end the disease around the world. We have made tremendous progress to fight the disease, and members of the Rotary Club here today have been pivotal in this,...
...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...
Today’s Mail on Sunday reports rumours that the President of Mozambique has acquired a private aeroplane. The Mail has also stated that the country receives aid from the UK, and...