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    Development news roundup: Additional EU aid for Syrian refugees, new DfID aid for Sahel and more

    By Devex Editor // 21 December 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • EU steps up aid for Syrian refugees and host communities

    • DfID to provide $24.4M emergency aid to Sahel in 2013

    • Mali military mission prompts humanitarian concerns

    • Without new funding, WFP ‘will run out of food for refugees in February’

    • US, Canada take aid transparency a step forward

    • AfDB president: Better policies, aid independence key to resilient Africa

    Other must reads:

    • World Bank releases international debt statistics 2013

    • IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund takes over Clinton Bush Haiti Fund portfolio

    • IDB to invest $5.25M in SME development projects in Haiti  

    • UNDP secures $13.19M from Germany, European Commission for greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects

    • UN peacekeepers provide protection for thousands fleeing violence in South Sudanese town

    • IMF to disburse $20M to Malawi after 1st review of extended credit facility

    • AfDB approves $3M loan for Comoros energy, financial governance initiatives

    • DfID announces more humanitarian aid for Kachin state

    • IDB helps Brazilian municipality improve sustainable urban mobility

    • $50M AfDB loan to fund expansion of power in Ivory Coast  

    • AfDB approves $21M loan for Zanzibar water and sanitation project

    • Getting food in Syria is ‘a nightmare,’ says WFP

    • $10.72M AfDB loan for capacity building projects in central Africa

    • EU responds swiftly to new influx of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon

    • IDB awards Haiti a $17.5M grant to repair roads damaged during Hurricane Sandy

    • FAO helps Darfur farmers and herders live in peace

    • In latest update, UN independent panel finds more breaches of human rights law by parties to Syrian conflict

    • On International Human Solidarity Day, Ban says unity key to reaching goals

    • On Myanmar visit, UN envoy meets civilians uprooted by Rakhine violence

    • USAID backs 3-year project to improve reading, math skills in Senegal

    • AfDB backs rural enterprises in Ghana

    • EIB to invest $396.1M in Turkey’s climate change, business development projects

    • EIB commits $356.4M to support jobs, SMEs, infrastructure projects in Tunisia’s poorest districts

    • US African Development Foundation funded 57 Feed the Future projects in 2012

    • $20M IFAD grant to boos rice, vegetable productivity in Gambia

    • JICA sends emergency aid supplies to cyclone-hit Samoa 

    • 3rd Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit opens in Burkina Faso

    • Tales from the ground: A victory of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan

    • World Bank approves additional $100M for Tanzania bus rapid transit system project

    • World Bank helps Burkina Faso boost rural development, sustainable forest management

    • Senegal secures additional $55M World Bank support for governance, economic growth initiatives

    • IMF, World Bank relieves $176M of Comoros’ debt 

    • US removes Saint Kitts and Nevis from trade preferences systems

    • Palestinian Authority president offers aid to Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria

    • Japan donates $320,484 for health, education and sports projects in Uganda

    • Paul Kagame blasts Western powers over aid

    • Africans in the Diaspora raise $10,000 for African social change organizations

    • Kagame warns against reliance on charity

    • World Bank to fund weather-proof road in Samoa

    • Zambia, AfDB ink $55M loan for hydropower, transmission line project

    • UK CDC invests $20M in housing fund for east and southern Africa

    • MSF condemns targeting of health workers in Pakistan

    • In Congo, a race to stop measles epidemic

    • Lebanon earns praise for efforts to assist Syrian refugees

    • Analysis: The militarization of hospital beds

    • New 3-year project aims to expand global civic space

    • UN secretary general praises strong support and partnership in Iraq

    • What do we want? Nutrition sensitive agriculture!

    • Transforming health with mobile technology

    • Global health in 2012: A year in links 

    • What Africa did right in 2012

    • Kerry Cosby: In defense of civil society

    • John Kerry is about to get the secretary of state job he was always meant to have

    • Can UN blue helmets really bring order to Syria?

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