EU leads €1.3bn Sudan aid pledge and backs arms embargo
EU leaders announced more than €800m in new aid pledges to help the victims of Sudan’s three year civil war, at a summit on Wednesday, but there is still no end to the war in sight.
Humanitarian aid
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The ending of USAID — one year on
On 10 March 2025, the US announced that 83 percent of USAID’s programs would be cancelled, involving over 5,000 contracts. The UK, Germany, France, Belgium and others quickly and sharply cut their aid budgets too. One year on, what are the effects?
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EU promises new aid to address Africa’s Great Lakes refugee crisis
The EU’s crisis commissioner Hadja Lahbib has made a three-day visit to eastern DR Congo and Burundi this week, to see for herself the scale of the refugee crisis.
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Major ‘reset’ coming on how EU Commission delivers humanitarian aid