Development news roundup: A new dawn for Somalia, AfDB maps aid priorities in Benin, and more

Today, we reported:

• A new dawn for Somalia

• AfDB maps aid priorities in Benin

• From Norway to WFP: A funding package

• ‘The world needs more food’

• ‘Unlocking Entrepreneurship’ in Barbados

Other must reads:

• New FAO book tackles ways toward better livestock sector development policies

• Education a first step to improving nutrition security in Burkina Faso

• Microfinance plants seed of hope for Myanmar’s farmers

• EU draft law proposes limits to crop-based biofuels use

• Trellis Fund sends US graduate students to work with small-holder farmers in developing countries

• Ratings agency says more donors to begin resuming aid to Rwanda

• Pakistan suspends expel order on Save the Children foreign staff

• Rand Paul: ‘We should not be giving foreign aid to any country that is not clearly our ally’

• UN human rights commissioner ‘gravely concerned’ for civilians suffering in Syria

• Lack of funds threatens Syrian refugee medical care in Lebanon – MSF

• Indonesian humanitarian mission distributes relief items to IDPs in Rakhine

• Denmark ups aid for Syrian refugees by $4M

• EBRD mobilizes more funds for SMEs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• JICA sends $250,000 worth of emergency flood aid to Niger

• Germany offers funds for Philippine climate change projects

• IFC invests $20M in India’s first renewable energy fund

• European Commission allocates funds to curb dengue outbreak in El Salvador

• In Niger, malaria adds to woes of people suffering from drought

• In Kenya, HIV stigma forces mothers to give birth at home

• Diarrhea kills 1.5 million children annually – WHO

• Tuberculosis explosion in South Africa blamed on weak public health system

• MCC’s Daniel Yohannes on aid efficiency and innovation

• ‘Far-reaching vision’ for growth and jobs urged at start of UN development dialogue

• UN clean development mechanism ‘in dire need of rescue’

• Ireland should keep promise on overseas aid, survey says

• North Korea accepts aid from South Korea

• Danish aid minister visits Yemen for development talks

• CIDA helps feed children in flood, conflict-affected Philippine regions

• UN official: Comoros ‘not looking for handouts’

• MSF donates relief items, medical supplies to Syrian Arab Red Crescent

• ShelterBox assessing emergency shelter needs in flood-hit Senegal

• Nepal’s ‘inadequate’ ambulance service ‘cannot even handle a small-scale natural disaster’

• Floods kill 137 in Nigeria

• Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Drone strikes on people with AIDS?

• Climate change: The roadmap to Bangkok conference

• Tales from the ground: Helping families tackle cholera in Sierra Leone

• Managing climate finance: A major challenge for Pacific island countries

• Why climate change is a public health issue

• UK’s U-turn: Is the storm over for Rwanda?

• Bernard Sabiti: Embrace open data for development

• Sustainable development goals ‘must include NCDs’

• The media’s role in advancing Millennium Development Goals

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