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Germany's Foreign Ministry has scrutinised humanitarian aid payments to the Palestinian territories and has not detected any misuse, the ministry said on Saturday after a review prompted by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Europe is one of the main sources of aid to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories where the United Nations estimates that around 2.1 million people need humanitarian assistance, among them 1 million children. The German announcement of the aid review had spark...

Cuts in development aid could contribute to global instability; violent conflict is already on the rise in countries that rely heavily on foreign assistance

US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is the economic arm of his administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, aimed at countering China’s influence in the region.

Smallholder farmers from the Global South benefit from a disproportionate 0.3% of climate finance despite producing a third of the world's food

It is crucial to narrow the gaps and ensure that climate finance goes to where people are most vulnerable, says Gernot Laganda of the World Food Programme.

Emergency health services are grappling with the challenge of providing essential care to individuals affected by a deadly earthquake in western Nepal.

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure and service provision are both costly and risky. Worse, PPPs typically fail to ensure universal, let alone fair access to public amenities.P

Germany responded to Hamas militants' bloody attack on Israel on Oct. 7 by temporarily suspending its development aid to the Palestinian Territories pending review. However, it said the review has focused on continuing support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), given the needs of people in the Gaza Strip and the increasingly unstable situation in neighbouring countries. The total sum of 91 million euros will go towards providing...

“When the sun rises in the morning, I see the light but I don't feel like I'm having a bright day. I think about how different these days are from our past days”.These are the words of Sharifa

Continued diplomatic relations are of paramount importance right now as the Israeli-Hamas conflict continues to escalate, a Fine Gael TD has said.