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Aid is a blunt tool for promoting democracy

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INT

The move reflects the conventional wisdom that aid can influence the behaviour of recipient countries, promoting democratic values. However, such goals are undermined by multiple…

African aid effectiveness will face greater scrutiny

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AFRICA

Many African leaders are fearful that aid budgets will soon fall due to some Western governments adopting more isolationist foreign policies. This would have a negative effect on…

Progress countering HIV/AIDS in Africa may be at risk

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AFRICA

HIV and AIDS have slipped from the public radar in recent years but nonetheless remains a serious health challenge across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Efforts to control the epidemic…

South-South cooperation has a long way to go

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INTERNATIONAL

Foreign development assistance from and to countries in the ‘Global South’ aims to disrupt not only the established direction of aid flows from the northern to the southern…

EU-Africa trade framework could scupper migration aims

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AFRICA/EU

EU-Africa trade talks.

UK report on aid workers unlikely to speed reform

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INTERNATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL: UK report will sharpen aid scrutiny

New climate report may give new impetus for Africa aid

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AFRICA

AFRICA: New climate report may give impetus for aid

US funding unlikely to alter African aid reorientation

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AFRICA

AFRICA: US funding unlikely to alter aid reorientation

Turkey's foreign policy will increase its isolation

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TURKEY

However, it has sometimes combined a very confrontational public relationship, including public attacks on an international institution, with a much more cooperative private…

Doubts grow over reforms for Africa's fragile states

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AFRICA

International state-building aid and interventions in Africa.