Development news roundup: Matching funds for Sahel, medicine crisis in Syria, and more

Today, we reported:

• From US, a gift to UNHCR

• A dollar for a dollar for the Sahel

• Hillary Clinton winds down Africa tour

• Latest casualty in Syria: Medicines

• A funding boost for Yemen’s political transition

• Amid Congo ‘catastrophe,’ a rebel resurgence

• Impassable roads hamper relief efforts in rain-battered Manila

• Brazil hones in on Nigeria

Other must-reads:

• UNICEF on child abuse in East Asia-Pacific: Harmful, long-term damage to victims and beyond

• UNHCR urges Bangladesh to lift ban against NGO aid for Rohingya refugees

• What UN Women is doing in Sierra Leone

• UN, ECOWAS team up to end violence against women in Africa

• IOM, UNFPA kick off human trafficking awareness drive in Indonesia’s West Java

• IOM gets UK aid to sustain post-flood rebuilding in Pakistan’s Sindh

• More EBRD funds for SME lending in Azerbaijan

• Armenia wins EIB financing for water, border crossings projects

• IsDB injects $275M in agriculture, water projects in African member countries

• OFID offers emergency grant for Gaza Strip

• ADB power sector financing to India’s Assam state nears $1B

• Pakistan looks to JICA for Karachi development funding

• AfDB assures support for Kenya’s mega ICT park project

• A grant for West Africa media strengthening

• IFC helps build Tunisian youth’s business skills

• China to Rwanda: ‘You can count on our financial support’

• US ‘deeply concerned’ over Bangladesh’s NGO aid ban

• Bill Clinton on clean energy: Less politics, more cooperation

• US pledges continued support for Ethiopia’s health care sector

• Namibian news reports Millennium Challenge Account halted due to mismanagement

• EU, small island states criticize US for ‘walking away’ from global climate goal

• Harvard experts weigh in on how to improve humanitarian aid

• In New York, a music festival for the global poverty fight

• Liberia eyes its own version of Peace Corps

• NGOs and private sector create increasingly fruitful partnerships

• Study: Renewables shocks and Maoist conflict, a causal link

• Worldwatch Institute: Monitoring of Rio+20’s pledges on sustainable tranport vital

• Save the Children report puts spotlight on education needs in chronic crises

• North Africa regional integration: Challenges and potential

• Should the development community beware corporates bearing gifts?

• Justin W. van Fleet: 3 windows to advance a common agenda on universal education

• How USAID’s partners address food security in DRC

• Family planning investment in Africa: Experts weigh in

• Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman: Sustainable farming, ‘a triple win’

• Why are prices of seeds in South Africa inflating?

• Lessons from successful budget transparency, accountability campaigns

• Millions still lack access to water, sanitation

• After London family planning summit, local and international action now needed

• Peace and security expert Michael Klare on US drought

• Hunger summit the ‘starting gun’ on an Olympic legacy

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