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EU / WFP bags of food aid in a warehouse in Algeria

2 Mar 2022 6 minute read

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Should emergency aid be neutral and unconditional?

Khin Ohmar and Toby Lanzer explore the complex trade-offs made by humanitarians working...

An Afghan man carries a package distributed by a Turkish humanitarian aid group at a distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 15, 2021. REUTERS/Ali Khara

20 Dec 2021 5 minute read

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‘Let’s not make the same mistake again’

Ritu Mahendru speaks to Afghan aid organizations who claim international sanctions are making it harder to...

A climate action group are pictured in Newquay, Cornwall, starting a four-day pilgrimage on foot to Carbis Bay to protest climate inaction at the G7 conference. Credit: Robert Taylor/Alamy Live News

10 Jun 2021 6 minute read

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G7 resistance: Harnessing collective power

As the international summit begins in Cornwall, Amy Hall speaks to people showing up to challenge its...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak jettisoned the UK's pledge to retain the UK's 0.7 per cent foreign aid commitment this week. Credit: Andrew Parsons

27 Nov 2020 5 minute read

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Don’t just defend aid – make it just

Britain’s aid budget cut is the act of a callous government. But we must re-think aid if we’re to turn the tide, writes...

18 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots

The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global...

US pop star Madonna reacts during the opening of her Mercy James hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, July 11, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

5 May 2020 6 minute read

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Does celebrity activism do more harm than good?

Andrés Jiménez and Paul Cullen politely disagree on this tricky issue

27 Feb 2020 18 minute read

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The age of development: an obituary

‘Development’ has long been reframed and hijacked, but, Wolfgang Sachs argues, we need to move beyond its...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at the opening of the UK-Africa Investment Summit, in London, 20 January 2020. Picture: DFID/Michael Hughes

26 Feb 2020 7 minute read

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The bleak future of British foreign aid

The government’s ‘international development’ strategy is a red herring for dubious private financing, argues Nick Dearden

23 May 2019 4 minute read

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At this rate, the UK’s aid programme will be gone by Christmas

The Department for International Development has become a lightning rod for rightwing anger. And with a new Conservative...

11 Apr 2019 4 minute read

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Labour: the world urgently needs a fair price for medicines

The UK’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development makes the case for rebalancing power away from...

17 Dec 2018 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Should the West stop giving aid to Africa?

Is aid just an extension of colonial economics? Or a lifeline for imperfect but necessary support systems?...

In Nigeria pressure on natural resources driven by climate stress, alongside government. The link must be broken with Religion and climate change

18 Dec 2018 3 minute read

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Don’t privatize forests, educate the people

In rural Nigeria, religious leaders think sinful behaviour is to blame for climate change, writes Adesuwa Ero....

2 Sep 2018 3 minute read

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Theresa May’s dancing to the wrong tune on development

These latest announcements look like a modern-day scramble for Africa, Kate Osamor writes.

A youth is escorted by Kenyan police officers as dozens of houses are being demolished to make way for a new road in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

31 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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View from Africa: Progress without people

Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya’s embrace of the Chinese development model.

27 Mar 2018 4 minute read

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Labour knocks out a radical new vision for development

Hazel Healy gives five reasons as to why Labour's new development policy paper is worth celebrating.

8 Mar 2018 10 minute read

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Labour: a new approach to development?

Kate Osamor, Labour’s shadow international development secretary, speaks to Yohann Koshy...

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