UK Foreign Office minister resigns over plans to slash aid budget
Baroness Sugg, whose brief included sustainable development, said promises should be kept in the ‘tough times as well as the good’.
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Baroness Sugg, whose brief included sustainable development, said promises should be kept in the ‘tough times as well as the good’.
Trump has accused the whistleblower of “treason”.
Concern says it helped 22.6 million people in 27 of the world’s poorest countries in 2016.
Money had been withheld while the charity’s operations in Turkey and Syria were investigated.
Two members of Goal’s Turkey staff have already been sacked in the aftermath of the scandal.
The USAID agency has put some of its funding for GOAL on hold, pending the probe.
The U2 frontman said he understands the financial stress countries are under as they debate how much aid to give.
A new survey also revealed the Irish public’s want to increase the budget for foreign aid.
Seriously. According to the OECD, anyway.
Ireland has now given €10 million to Palestine since 2010,
Ireland is the only donor country to allocate half of its total aid to the world’s least developed countries.
A high-level meeting on the crisis will take place in Brussels tomorrow morning.
With over 700,000 people displaced, Ireland is stepping in to help.
It comes as the US and Britain deploy warships to the islands. Some 10,000 people are feared dead in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
The country donated €600,000 to the initiative between 2005 and 2011, when the decision was made to cease supporting it.
Nineteen countries have been identified as suffering from alarming levels of hunger.
The foreign aid minister says the money will protect the youngest and neediest in Irish society.
Minister of State Joe Costello told TheJournal.ie that his department plans to launch a new civilian volunteer corps later this year.
This emergency assistance brings our total support to the region to almost €5.5 million this year.
Bill Gates was right to highlight global poverty with Enda Kenny during his recent visit to Dublin – because Ireland is the country charged with brokering an agreement on overseas aid, writes Hans Zomer.
So €4m in Irish aid may have been misappropriated in Uganda. Can we afford to keep giving – or can we afford to stop?
With the government suspending aid to Uganda yesterday, we’re asking should Ireland be distributing foreign aid while still under the terms of a bailout?
The Department provided millions of euro in aid to countries in crisis, as well as helping Irish citizens with emergencies, adoptions and weddings.
“Gay rights are human rights,” says Hillary Clinton, announcing that the US will use diplomatic tools to promote LGBT rights.
The GOP members battling it out for the presidential nomination were at loggerheads last night about foreign policy, foreign aid and whether waterboarding is a form of torture.
Meanwhile, rain and snow has caused further difficulties for survivors and rescue teams.
Salary caps for civil servant salaries and an axe taken to Government’s personal pockets announced.