Development news roundup: MSF presses for action on drug-resistant TB, military coup threatens 'development gains' in Mali, and more

Today, we reported:

• MSF presses for action on drug-resistant TB

• Military coup threatens ‘development gains’ in Mali

• New partnership offers ‘best of US’ solutions to global water challenges

• US aid to Egypt no longer in limbo

• UN chief stresses need for holistic Rio+20 outcome

• On water and food security: A case for sustainable agriculture practices

• Secondary education in India to get $500M facelift

• 8 organizations team up for nutrition

• Some lessons from recent water forums in France

• TB fight goes dry

• DfID’s investment in water and sanitation, a trickle in the budget?

Other must reads:

• FAO calls for action on food-and-mouth disease outbreak in Egypt, North Africa

• EU pledges additional $9.2M humanitarian aid for Syria

• Now available in the Philippines: Local water governance toolbox

• UAE, UK agree to tackle poverty, promote growth in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen

• World Bank approves $75M for providing safe water to 1.6M Bangladeshis

• World tobacco conference panelists agree full implementation of WHO FCTC needed

• Margaret Chan urges world to stand with Australia in tobacco fight

• Malaysia’s experience in successful poverty fight could help ‘global South’

• UN, Indonesia launch disaster-preparedness package

• UK to support Tanzania’s rural sanitation development projects

• Conflict drives Sudanese farmers away from fields

• International Water Management Institute is 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

• IDEX evaluation report details effectiveness of its grant-making model

• African finance ministers support Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for World Bank president

• USGLC says cutting international affairs budget ‘will leave hot spots around the world unaddressed’

• ‘Credible developing country candidates’ may make it hard for US to hand World Bank job to a favored ‘lieutenant’

• Duncan Green asks: ‘What should a European voice on development say?’

• Andy Wales and doing business in increasingly resource-scarce world

• Join the debate: Is SXSW idea to ‘wire’ homeless people innovative or disrespectful?

• Carnegie associates say World Bank’s system for appointing presidents extends to senior managers too

• Peace Corps-like program in Australia?

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