Development News Round-up: Aid to Libya, Somalia, Sudan and More

Today, we reported: 

• WFP To Step Up Libyan Food Aid Operations 

• UN to Release $1.5B of Libyan Funds Frozen in UK Banks, Amid Wealth Control Issues

• East Africa Crisis Response: Updates on Relief Operations, Donor Pledges 

• UN Doles Out Eid Packages to Somalia 

• Aid Cut Threats: What’s the Latest on Palestinian Leaders’ Bid for Statehood, Recognition at UN? 

• Ros-Lehtinen Proposal Keeps Pressure on UN 

• Cambodia’s NGO Law Needs ‘Serious Response’ From Donors, Rights Groups Say 

• Cambodia to Critics of NGO Law: Where Were You During Khmer Rouge Regime? 

• UN to Conduct Global Threat Review in Light of Bombing in Nigeria 

• UN: More Than 200,000 Could Go Hungry, Die Due to Aid Restriction in South Kordofan

• Former SKorea Foreign Minister Urges Cautious Aid For NKorea 

• IOM Assists IDPs in Conflict-Torn South Sudanese State

Other must-reads:

• USAID Calls for Proposals for Livelihood Projects in DRC

• Republican Mark Prater Named Staff Director of US Deficit Panel 

• Bloomberg: UN Flawed, US Should Help Make It More Efficient and Effective 

• UN Report Reveals More than Half of Cambodians With HIV Go Hungry 

• WHO: Progress in Reducing Infant Mortality Too Slow, Africa Left Behind 

• New UN Online Toolkit to Help Hotels Go Green 

• A Year After Severe Floods, Colombia Still Unprepared  

• In West Darfur, Storm Destroys Several Tents, Displaces People  

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