Development news round-up: Yemen’s urgent appeal for aid, Sudan’s small concession to international pressure, and more

Today, we reported:

• Yemen appeals for urgent international assistance

• Sudan allows some overseas participation in conflict-torn state

• Bangladesh mulls forfeiting World Bank loan

• Kenyan aid groups feel brunt of AIDS funding decline

• Ireland donates $6.6M to Sahel

• ILS brings development work to Thomson Reuters

• The buzz on Robert Zoellick and the World Bank

• What’s next for Somalia?

Other must reads:

• UN donates solar panels to Afghan schools

• ADB confirms continued support for Nepal

• EU commits $14.7M for conservation agriculture projects in Zambia

• ActionAid assists Mozambique, Malawi flood victims

• South Sudan food situation could further deteriorate – aid groups

• Red Cross negotiating Syria ceasefire to allow aid delivery

• Southeast Asia needs to boost investment in disaster risk-reduction programs – UN

• Managing food, water, energy resources Mekong region’s greatest challenge in next decade

• Strong agriculture sector needed to secure food security amid climate change, growing population

• Myanmar government targets to Kachin IDP resettlement by May

• AFD looks at funding design, construction of Pakistan’s Munda Dam

• FSNAU technical officer says too early to tell whether Somalia is safe from another famine

• JICA commits $3.5M to Vietnam’s public transport project

• John McCain, Lindsay Graham: US, Egypt working to resolve conflict over NGOs

• ‘Development journalism’ in Africa means press freedom has to give way to economic goals

• High expectations hound Green Climate Fund

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