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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Food security
    World’s poorest nations to receive aid amid soaring food prices

    Yellen tells G7 meeting there is a ‘very real risk’ that more people will go hungry

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    UK accused of prioritising ‘aid for trade’ in new development strategy

    Charities and aid bodies say London is prioritising geopolitics over long-term development goals

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    UK deportation plan puts Rwanda’s treatment of refugees back in focus

    East African nation has hosted similar offshore asylum programmes in the past

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine appeals for financial support to ensure country’s ‘survival’

    Finance minister seeks immediate aid from allies to plug deficit amounting to several billion dollars a month

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    The true cost of the west’s attention deficit

    Ukraine may be in the spotlight, but aid is also needed elsewhere

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Afghanistan’s unnecessary plight

    Taking a rigid stand against the Taliban leaves Afghans starving

  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
    Afghanistan
    World Bank under pressure to release frozen Afghan funds

    Charities call for support for public sector salaries to prevent collapse of essential services

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Deposed leader’s plight is a dark day for Myanmar

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentencing is symbolic of detention of thousands

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    UK business & economy
    UK seeks to counter China’s influence with new development investment arm

    Body will leverage private capital to fund projects in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, says foreign secretary

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Afghanistan
    Afghans in remote areas must receive food aid within weeks, agencies warn

    Fears of humanitarian crisis as economic conditions worsen and winter sets in

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    UK Budget
    Sunak promises to restore 0.7% overseas aid spending

    But Treasury faces criticism over what items could be included to reach target

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Afghanistan
    US warns that Islamists in Afghanistan could attack America in six months

    Taliban struggling to feed millions amid drought and after international development support was cut

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    African economy
    UK development arm in $1.7bn joint venture with Dubai operator

    CDC Group to invest $720m for minority stake in project in Egypt, Senegal and Somaliland

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    Kevin Watkins
    Children need action not warm words on learning poverty

    Clarity, co-operation and leadership are vital if millions of young lives are not to be blighted

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Ethiopia
    UN chief Guterres voices shock over Ethiopia expulsions

    Decision by Addis Ababa to remove seven staff comes amid row over access to aid in Tigray region

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Budget cuts hinder efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

    As donated drugs near expiry, time is running out to distribute them, just as the peak season for infection approaches

  • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
    Afghanistan
    China urges end to sanctions on Afghanistan underscoring divide with west

    Taliban should be given access to foreign reserves to ease crisis, says foreign minister

  • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    The war in Afghanistan has shaped an entire generation in the west

    And the fate of the Afghan people will weigh heavily on our collective conscience

  • Monday, 16 August, 2021
    David Miliband
    We cannot abandon a new generation of Afghans to chaos

    More in-country aid and regional agreements are priorities as well as better ways for refugees to get to safety

  • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The world needs help in going back to school

    Absence from classrooms has caused severe damage in poorer countries

  • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
    Education
    Aid to tackle learning crisis set to fall short of $5bn goal

    Five questions around the global education summit

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The flimsy case for cutting UK foreign aid

    Breaking a promise to maintain development spending undermines COP26 diplomacy

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Special Report
    Delivering for the World’s Children

    In this year of summits, the United Kingdom Committee for Unicef (Unicef UK) has invited experts to set out policies that governments and companies should pursue to help the next generation overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and economic inequity

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
    Japan follows UK’s lead in securing child nutrition against Covid

    December summit in Tokyo aims to tackle the sharp rise in childhood malnutrition caused by the pandemic

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
    Global Britain should restore its foreign aid spending pledge

    The UK can provide leadership and wield soft power through multilateralist diplomacy

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