Development news roundup: Aid in India's food security plans, Karzai seeks further control over foreign and more

Today, we reported:

• How India’s food security plans may affect aid

• Hamid Karzai to Washington: Gimme more

• Canada on Haiti aid: Refocusing, not freezing

• For Liberian refugees, mission accomplished?

• No mirage: Food security in the Mideast

Other must reads:

• SKorea plans $525M annual ODA

• Japan sends aid to flood-hit Sri Lanka

• Indonesia pledges aid for Myanmar’s Rakhine state

• Philippine official bemoans tepid international response to ‘Bopha’

• Climate change damage to Pakistan could hit $14B a year

• IMF to Malawi: ‘Stay the course’

• IDB holds education policy workshop with Ecuadorian officials

• Isolux gets IDB loan for renewable energy projects in Latin America

• Yemen praises IsDB for continued support

• Turkey urges UN to ensure Syria doesn’t stop aid

• Somalia’s Puntland official denies report on humanitarian services levy

• Lebanon seeks $180M for Syrian refugees

• UNICEF calls for end to child soldier recruitment in CAR

• Aid to CAR conflict victims continue despite relocation of humanitarian workers

• ActionAid Gambia chief on how to reduce vulnerability

• Increased capacity building for ‘Africa-led’ agriculture

• How transparency is helping development Nigeria

• Australia provides aid, sends firefighters to wildfire-hit Tasmania

• Egypt’s Morsi to meet IMF official on $4.8B loan request

• Afghanistan: More funds, long-term solutions needed to help urban poor

• Increasing ethnic violence in DR Congo has led to serious humanitarian crisis – UN

• Concern grows at lack of humanitarian access in Central African Republic

• Insecurity in the Central African Republic leads to continuous population displacement, humanitarian access constraints

• FAO cites example of Latin America and the Caribbean in fighting hunger

• Health project in DRC has ‘modest’ risk to development outcomes – report

• Community radio role in disaster preparedness

• 2 charity workers involved in education project in Pakistan shot dead

• In Nigeria, Red Cross to embark on disaster-risk reduction projects, cash transfer programs

• UNICEF calls for cease the recruitment of children by armed groups

• South Korea commits to support Rwanda’s development programs

• Hanna Godefa is new UNICEF goodwill ambassador

• British NGO deactivates over 100 landmines in Angola’s Bie Province in 2012

• Tapping Africa’s scientific potential

• EBRD, AfDB explore investment, development opportunities in Africa

• From emergency aid to early recovery in northern Uganda

• Funding gap threatens provision of school lunches in Madagascar

• UN voices worry about CAR rebels

• Africa analysis: Filling climate data gaps is only the 1st step

• Natural disasters cost $160bn in 2012

• Austrian-approved project to increase productivity of dual-purpose cattle in Nicaragua

• Japan sends emergency aid to flood-hit Sri Lanka

• US foreign aid transparency bill shut down in Senate

• UNF welcomes UNGA declaration of the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All

• Bonn In­ter­na­ti­o­nal School gets BMZ grant

• Global Agriculture and Food Security Program OKs $46.5M for Nepal

• Global polio eradication: Another missed deadline

• Sierra Leone exonerates former health minister amid alleged misappropriation of GAVI funds

• Top humanitarian priorities for 2013

• Saving the world through social media?

• Director of Humanitarian Innovation Project: Put innovation at the heart of refugee protection work

• The war on Pakistan’s aid workers

• World Bank Lead Economist Jacques Morisset: In Tanzania, ask firms what they need, not what they want

• A new agenda for the G20: Addressing fragile states

• Communication is aid

• Climate inaction is a clear failure of democracy

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