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The United Kingdom’s (UK) Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Malawi is expected to increase by 207 percent to £51 million (K72 billion) in the next financial year, according to published data from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The increase, according to the July 2023 UK–Malawi Development Partnership Summary, reflects importance of the UK
The European Union (EU) has announced the advanced release of the fifth disbursement of EUR 1.4 million, approximately VT185 million under the EU Vanuatu Value Chain (VaVaC) Budget Support Programme.
Niger's regional and Western partners have announced a series of sanctions against the country following last week's coup. Niger is the world's seventh-biggest producer of uranium, the radioactive metal widely used for nuclear energy and treating cancer. It is also one of the world's poorest countries, receiving close to $2 billion a year in development assistance.
The European Union has cut off financial support to Niger and the United States has threatened to do the same after military leaders this week announced they had overthrown the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, receiving close to $2 billion a year in official development assistance, according to the World Bank. It is also a key security partner of Western countries such as France and the United States, which use it as a base for their efforts to contain an Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa's Sahel region.
Monday Lines Where do we go from here? By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 24 July, 2023) Given today's state of the nation,