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

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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