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    Development news roundup: New food security pledges and alliance at G8, former DfID official is new EBRD president, and more

    By Devex Editor // 21 May 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Is G8 offering a ‘shrinking response’ to the growing food problem?

    • A first: Former DfID official takes EBRD’s top post

    • EBRD shareholders OK $1.3B fund for Arab states

    • Australia in it for the long haul in Afghanistan

    • UNDP gears up to normalize ties with Myanmar

    Other must reads:

    • Australia will contribute additional $15.7M food, medical assistance to Sahel, South Sudan

    • FAO conference supports regional trust fund, calls on UN body to help member countries halve food waste

    • Drought, dire economic straits force 43,000 African refugees to migrate to Yemen

    • World Bank grants $38M for South Sudan’s feeder roads rehabilitation, agricultural projects

    • Bomb explodes near UN convoy carrying peacekeeping operations chief Hervé Ladsous

    • WHO needs more ‘flexible funds’

    • Dwindling aid threatens education of migrants along Myanmar-Thai border

    • ADB approves $11.2M for Philippine anti-poverty initiatives

    • Rainy season brings ‘exponential increases’ in cholera deaths in Haiti, where funding is drying up

    • ActionAid: Global, domestic mobilization of financial resources needed to boost quality and quantity of education aid

    • Samar road project pre-bidding conference May 28

    • Communications minister says Padma bridge construction to push through even without loan

    • Doctors fear looming health disaster in Sudan’s Nuba mountains

    • Is UN Security Council’s ‘Big Five’ bullying small member states?

    • Neil Clark: Privatization, ‘open’ economy spell disaster for Arab spring countries

    • Sri Lanka ready to receive foreign assistance but not foreign interference

    • UK aid will increase but meeting 0.7 percent target unlikely

    • 10 ideas for David Cameron and the post-2015 development goals panel

    • Jonathan Glennie: Development cooperation needs to focus on a broader, more inclusive framework

    • US plan to double international aid awards to foreign vendors could put American contractors in the red

    • Unable to support government-proposed financial reform program, IMF pulls out advisory team from Swaziland

    • Switzerland agrees to fund $4.3M ‘green’ project in Indonesia

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