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Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Aug 25, 2020

Coronavirus - Africa: Violence against women and girls - Evidence digest

This report explores the impact of COVID19 on forced migrant survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)

Here is a selection of the latest evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-based violence (GBV): COVID-19 & VAWG COVID-19 and violence against women and children – what have we learned so far? (June 2020) This note from the Center for Global Development reviews rigorous studies of…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Aug 25, 2020

Wild polio wiped out in Africa with UK aid support

World Health Organization (WHO) announces the end of wild polio in Africa, marking a major step towards global eradication of the disease

UK efforts to stop wild polio in Africa have contributed to the continent being officially declared free from the disease, which can kill or maim children for life. Today’s announcement by the World Health Organization follows no new wild polio cases being registered across the continent for four years. Wild…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Jun 27, 2020

Coronavirus - Africa: Royal Air Force (RAF) flights to take UK aid-funded supplies to Africa to tackle coronavirus

The first of a series of Royal Air Force flights taking medical supplies to Africa to help fight the coronavirus pandemic departed today

The RAF C-17 took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire on a journey funded by the Department For International Development. The transport aircraft was carrying a field hospital, which will be used as a backup facility for frontline aid workers in the region. Aid workers from around the world are…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Mar 02, 2020

Africa Minister champions UK leadership to help educate girls and end preventable deaths

Minister for Africa James Duddridge meets Sahel leaders and partners, championing the UK’s role in girls' education and ending preventable deaths

Joint FCO and DFID Minister for Africa James Duddridge meets Sahel leaders and international partners, championing the UK’s leading role in ensuring girls can go to school and ending preventable deaths. Minister for Africa James Duddridge has visited Mauritania for the first time since taking up his role. He attended…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Jan 22, 2020

Minister hails UK-Morocco future

Conor Burns MP, Minister of State at the Department for International Trade (DIT), spoke at an event in the margins of the UK-Africa Investment Summit

By Conor Burns MP Introduction Thank you to the Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc, the International Chamber of Commerce and Moroccan Embassy in London, for organising this dialogue. Opportunities in Africa We all know about the amazing opportunities emerging in Africa. Africa has a young and rapidly growing population.…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Jan 14, 2020

Alok Sharma heralds green cities of the future on Kenya visit

International Development Secretary pledges new UK aid to help build green cities across Africa with quality infrastructure

International Development Secretary pledges new UK aid to help build green cities across Africa with quality infrastructure; Alok Sharma announces new UK Centre for Cities and Infrastructure which will help African governments plan, build and run environmentally friendly cities; Visit to Kenya comes ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Oct 10, 2019

UK boosts trade and investment partnership with Ghana

International Development Minister Baroness Sugg visited Ghana last week to strengthen trade and investment ties ahead of UK-Africa Investment Summit in 2020

International Development Minister Baroness Sugg visited Ghana last week to strengthen trade and investment ties ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in 2020. Co-hosting the UK-Ghana Business Council alongside the Ghanaian Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, Baroness Sugg discussed how UK aid and investment can help Ghana move beyond aid by creating…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Sep 11, 2019

UK agreed trade continuity with six African nations

The UK initials Economic Partnership Agreement with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique

The UK has this week (Tuesday 10th September) initialled an Economic Partnership Agreement with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique (SACU+M) that will allow business to keep trading freely after Brexit. This marks the end of formal trade discussions and the UK-SACU+M Economic Partnership Agreement will be subject to…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Aug 28, 2019

International Development Secretary to boost infrastructure in the poorest countries with UK aid

Alok Sharma announces a new Commission, bringing together leading experts to turbo-charge quality infrastructure projects in developing countries

International Development Secretary Alok Sharma announces a new Commission, bringing together leading experts to turbo-charge quality infrastructure projects in developing countries; During a visit to Ethiopia, Alok Sharma called for the UK to lead the world to mobilise private sector investment to create jobs and build sustainable economic growth that will…

Source: Department for International Development (DFID) | Aug 23, 2019

UK aid to provide life-saving support for up to one million people crippled by drought in Somalia

Up to one million people in Somalia will receive lifesaving food and clean water to help stop starvation and malnutrition thanks to new UK funding

Somalia is one of the world’s poorest and most fragile states, compounded by climate shocks that severely affect the lives and livelihoods of millions; Minister for Africa, Andrew Stephenson, has announced extra food and water for Somalia to help vulnerable families in desperate need; He also met humanitarian partners to…