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Aid

News, comment and features on aid, aid policy, aid data and aid spending

April 2026

  • people carry a casket for a child

    US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN

  • Yezedi refugee children in Kurdistan, Iraq

    Cuts to overseas aid will worsen shocks to global economy, David Miliband says

  • a man in a suit speaks to a woman while seated on stage

    Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

  • Displaced people wait in line for food aid at a camp in Sudan.

    More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

  • Iran war could plunge 32 million into poverty, says United Nations

  • UK spending on foreign aid hits lowest level since 2008

  • Opinion
    double quotation markIn the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running

    Ajas Khan

March 2026

  • FILE PHOTO: Wads of British Pound Sterling banknotes are stacked in piles at the Money Service Austria company's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger//File Photo

    Cuts to overseas aid will ultimately hurt Britain

  • Yvette Cooper

    Aid cuts
    double quotation markSpending more on defence and less on aid does not mean walking away from our values and responsibilities – here’s why

    Yvette Cooper
  • People gather in the dark outside a large tent with UK Aid logo and union jack in a compound of shelters in front of a school.

    UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’

  • Two women hold small children by a blue wall and a metal door with a sign which reads 'Unicef: for every child'.

    Millions of children dying from preventable causes, report reveals

  • Aid cuts
    UK government axes flagship global health project

  • Climate aid cuts are a disaster for global south

  • UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries

February 2026

  • JPortrait of Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe

    Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries

  • A nurse writes a report with a pen in a hospital ward

    US accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid deal

  • A baby is being held as a hand holding a medicine dropper reaches towards its open mouth.

    Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi

  • Hands tamping down the earth around a newly planted young tree

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?

  • Charities fear millions in Ramadan giving will not reach crisis zones as UK Muslim groups ‘debanked’

  • Medics in UK and US say they have been barred from Gaza after speaking out

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