The delayed reaction to last year’s drought crisis in East Africa exacerbated the heavy loss of lives.
The earthquake has highlighted the competitive ethos of large NGOs, writes Matthew Weaver.
A Sudanese minister on Tuesday dismissed United Nations warnings that Khartoum’s decision to expel aid agencies would put thousands of lives of risk.
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/ 19 September 2008
Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels on Friday demanded that the United Nations Security Council secure an aid corridor to their homeland.
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/ 10 September 2008
Ministers from rich and poor countries met in Accra last week to discuss ways to make the system of aid more effective.
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/ 2 September 2008
Not all Zimbabwean aid agencies can get back to work in the impoverished country, a spokesperson for an umbrella organisation said on Monday.
With more than bn in aid flowing into poor countries every year, donor talks in Ghana this weekend will focus on how to make aid more effective.
Zimbabwe on Friday lifted a ban on aid agencies suspended over accusations that some of them were siding with the opposition.