The UK government has revealed significant direct aid cuts to Africa and the Middle East, as it spelled out only limited details of its plan to reduce the international development budget to fund ...

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The UK government will cut bilateral aid to Africa by almost £900 million by 2028 as part of sweeping changes to Britain’s international aid spending.

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a major defense spending increase, funded by deep cuts to foreign aid—raising concerns about the future of global development and humanitarian efforts. Foreign ...

It's been over a week since Congress granted the White House its wish to claw back $7.9 billion that Congress previously allocated for spending on disease and famine control, disaster relief and ...

The main agency tasked with distributing U.S. foreign aid — USAID — is facing renewed scrutiny by the Trump administration, which has suggested it could drastically overhaul or even shutter the ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump’s new administration has plunged international development assistance into an existential crisis. Within hours of taking office in January, the ...

More than one year since massive foreign aid cuts and the eventual closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Oxfam outlines what USAID did and the ripple effects of losing it. U.S.

The capital of Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, runs on aid. A city built in the 1970s by the World Bank, Lilongwe’s straight streets are filled with charities, development agencies and ...