Development news roundup: MCC back in business in Malawi, another Red Crescent volunteer dead in Syria, and more

Today, we reported:

• MCC back in business in Malawi

• Another Red Crescent volunteer dead in Syria

• In South Sudan, water shortage puts refugees’ lives at serious threat

• A global agreement, and much criticism

• The new ‘G’ on the block

Other must reads:

• Urgent funding needed to provide humanitarian aid to 1.5M Syrians – UN

• Navi Pillay offers key recommendations to strengthen human rights treaty body system, including use of reporting calendar

• Edward Norton on Rio+20, biodiversity and being a UN Goodwill Ambassador

• 2012 Horn of Africa appeal only 40 percent funded

• CIDA announces $15M support for school feeding program in Haiti

• ‘Robin Hood Tax’ should benefit people in poor countries and not be used to pay deficits – Oxfam

• Billing dispute leads US to award $10B contract to feed troops in Afghanistan to Dubai firm

• Will proposed changes to UN telco treaty hurt democracy movements?

• Ahead of Tokyo funding conference, Hamid Karzai calls on government to step up anti-corruption fight

• Mohammed Morsi’s win signals advance of democracy in Egypt, but skepticism remains

• Pakistan’s new prime minister says ‘democracy intact,’ energy and law and order top priorities

• IDB approves $20M loan to improve secondary, post-secondary education in Barbados

• 29,000 women, 12,5000 newborns in Honduras to benefit from $30M IDB loan

• Inaugural TechGirls group arrives June 25 in the US for 3-week tech knowledge exchange

• EU, Cambodia discussed Asian country’s reform agenda, development cooperation at 7th joint committee meeting

• Somali leaders forge Somalia’s official draft constitution

• UN report ‘confirms’ climate change’s role in driving refugees to conflict-afflicted areas

• IDB supports modernization of education system in Suriname

• Colombia on last stage of strengthening subnational fiscal stability, with help from IDB

• 3 UN agencies receive $5M from CERF to address drought in Angola

• CIDA-Red Cross partnership aims to boost Canadian response to humanitarian disasters

• IFC, MIGA partner to encourage investment in fragile, conflict states

• 17 countries sign agreement to convert Global Green Growth Institute to an international organization

• Incofin, AFD sign $2.3M technical assistance to rural fund

• Plight of widows one threat to meeting MDGs

• US, Zimbabwe collaborate to strengthen infection prevention and control in African country’s health facilities

• ActionAid report highlights importance of family planning in achieving all MDGs

• Want to know more about the African Diaspora Marketplace II? Register to learn more about the initiative

• UAE food aid reaches Yemenis

• ADB South Asia director general to discuss support to Sri Lanka in 3-day visit

• PEPFAR-funded project in South Africa to extend until 2016

• $117M AfDB-approved credit goes to agricultural sector in South Africa

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