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

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

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