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French organizers want to show they can keep fighting poverty and meet the challenges of climate change, said a top official.

Ensuring funds are "new and additional", and minimising their fragmentation, are critical for this new climate financing mechanism, says Cameron Hill.

Most of the debt of the poorest countries is now in the hands of private banks, the World Bank reported in December.

The world's poorest countries are bearing the brunt of the world's debt crisis, at a time when they need more cash than ever to fight climate change.

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BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China Global Development Initiative (GDI) is seeing sound implementation worldwide, according to a new report. The Progress Report

June 20 (Reuters) - As world leaders and development policy experts gather in Paris this week to discuss ways to expand climate financing, academics have proposed a new approach they say could add $60 billion a year in capital to multilateral development bank balance sheets. The by Boston University's Global Development Policy Center would harness a small portion of excess central bank reserves, a form of hybrid capital, to boost lending resources to tackle development,

President Bola Tinubu on Monday appointed Nuhu Ribadu as National Security Adviser, the first without military background since the

President Bola Tinubu on Monday appointed Nuhu Ribadu as the National Security Adviser, the first without military background since the return to democratic governance in 1999. | Pulse Nigeria

By 2050, #AntimicrobialResistance is expected to claim 10 million lives a year globally, more than cancer and diabetes combined, with most of this burden falling on low- and middle-income countries