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    Development news roundup: African financial community's meeting, kidnapped Iranian aid workers, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 01 August 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • A full plate for Africa’s finance officials

    • UN investigates violence in Rakhine

    • Ebola kills health worker in Uganda

    • 7 Iranian aid workers taken in Benghazi

    • Ban names all 26 members of post-2015 development panel

    • World Bank, ADB: Officially in Myanmar

    • Annan or Obama: Who’s got it best for Mozambique?

    • US Priorities for Africa shift to business

    Other must-reads:

    • Syrian-Canadians choose Human Concern International over Syrian Arab Red Crescent

    • EU announces more humanitarian aid for Horn of Africa

    • Update on the Pacific Partnership 2012 in Cambodia

    • Panetta sees closer US security partnership with Tunisia

    • Job skills for youth: Update on US project in Tegucigalpa

    • French minister visits Congo for talks with civil society, government officials ahead of Francophonie Summit

    • UN recommends to Côte d’Ivoire: A human rights-based solution to displacement

    • More aid needed for Malian refugees

    • UNAMID gets another year

    • State Department workshop tackles UN guiding principles on business and human rights

    • Colombia’s Northern Cauca: Fighting intensifies, thousands displaced

    • Ireland donates to Kenyan hospital’s pediatric heart surgery, HIV programs

    • Former South Sudanese refugee’s mission: Build schools in his native land

    • Ban Ki-moon seeks stronger UN-G20 cooperation

    • UN agencies recognize improved exclusive breastfeeding rates in Philippines

    • Australian Senate tables Afghan aid inquiry

    • In Congo, fighting leaves scores of civilian casualties

    • AfDB sounds alarm on rising food prices

    • Sudan aid deal, a ‘gimmick’?

    • OIC plans Malaysia meeting on ways to help Myanmar

    • Turkey in Mogadishu: ‘Nobody is better’

    • USAID helps bring clean water to Kosovo villages

    • New Spanish initiative in Philippine province targets end of gender discrimination

    • How a youth-led initiative fights poverty in Guatemala

    • Earthquake-prone schools in Jordan receive disaster training

    • Fire destroys 80 percent of refugee camp market

    • Cholera spreads in Sierra Leone slum areas

    • In northwest DRC, a new spike in malaria

    • A Kenyan aid worker on Somalia drought: ‘The worst I have seen in my lifetime’

    • ADB assures support for Nepal water projects

    • UNICEF assesses aid needs in flood-hit North Korea

    • USAID’s support for better farm production in Dominican Republic

    • Bridging human rights-science gap, key to ending AIDS – International HIV/AIDS Alliance

    • West Bengal rural roads project wins ADB funding

    • At London Olympics, a reminder to help end child hunger

    • A first: Fiji introduces 3 new vaccines all at once

    • A ‘40-hour famine’ to help poor countries

    • AusAID looks into improving lives of people with disabilities in the Pacific at high-level meetings in Fiji

    • Livelihood programs increasing women’s risk of gender-based violence?

    • Oxfam’s Kate Wareing: Social franchising, anyone?

    • US State Department to further scale back Iraqi police training initiative

    • A tale of two AIDS conferences

    • Human trafficking a worldwide problem

    • USDA research strategy implementation hinges on partnerships

    • What did Bill Clinton say at AIDS 2012?

    • The missing ‘P’ in public-private partnerships

    Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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    About the author

    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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