Development news round-up: MSF operations in Somalia, NGO raids in Egypt, new UN budget and more

Today, we reported:

• Will MSF remain in Somalia?

• Donors, NGOs decry raids on civil society, human rights groups in Egypt

• Less funds for UN core operations in 2012, 2013

• Canada unveils recipients of some $140M

• IFAD releases $100M in loans, grants for rural poor in Ethiopia

• UK rallies for support for UN’s CERF

• Congress releases $40M foreign aid to Palestinian Authority

• WFP eyes wider operations in South Sudan in 2012

• UNFPA reaches pregnant, lactating women in storm-hit Philippines

• Suspended Cambodian NGO says back to work

• US bank closes money-wiring service to Somalia

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• Global Fund clarifies guidelines for grant renewal process

• Experts argue against cutting aid to middle income countries

• Jonathan Glennie: ‘Global cooperation must not be sacrificed on the altar of self-interest’

• IFRC launches $2.2M appeal for looming Mauritania food crisis

• Japan helps fund Malaysian technological institute

• 2011 natural disasters may be world’s costliest – experts

• Crislyn Felisilda: Notes from an aid worker and typhoon survivor

• In 2012, development community should look beyond aid in setting goals – Guardian

• Report seeks better crisis prevention training within US foreign affairs agencies

• Brian Whitaker: NGO raids in Egypt boil down to control issues

• Owen Barder shares CDG Europe’s priority issues for 2012

• Karl Hofmann names 10 global health milestones in 2011

• AECID steps up assistance to storm-hit Philippines

• Bank from Trinidad and Tobago funds new school in Haiti

• MIF and partners to launch $6.3M biogas market development program in Nicaragua

• Conference highlights importance of strengthening cooperation in disaster management

• General Assembly President calls on UN Member States to renew efforts in 2012

• Philippine Senator calls for better disaster risk preparations following Washi

• CERF releases $3 million funding for storm victims in the Philippines

• New UN initiative in Mozambique aims to boost crop yields

• Gucci donates $1.15M to UNICEF’s ‘School for Africa’

• Japan pledges $9.3M for polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan

• UNHCR, partners hand out winter supplies in Kabul

• Aid agencies, food security analysts discuss getting the facts right in the Sahel

• CIDA funding delay slows down international work

• Aid agencies hungry for media coverage of humanitarian crisis in Yemen

• USAID and the improved medical care in Afghanistan

• Arab organizations support construction of new villages for IDPs in Darfur

• East Africa appeal is most successful in history, Save the Children says

• Philippine government urged to strictly monitor foreign aid to Washi victims

• JICA pledges $3.8M for project in Vietnam to control drug-resistant bacteria

• ICRC sends emergency medical supplies to southern Somalia

• Barack Obama signs foreign affairs spending bill into law

• Saudi Arabia donates $25M to Global Fund

• Brian Wills is ShelterBox USA’s new vice president of development

• In Syria, Red Cross says aid efforts hampered by violence

• MSF office in South Sudanese town looted amidst escalating tribal violence

• Japan supports water project in Ethiopia’s Somalia region

• ADB to release funds for Pakistan’s water projects

• Philippine Red Cross eyes shelters for storm victims in Mindanao

• Aid continue to pour in for Washi survivors

• Solar lamps bring light in Haiti

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