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  • Ministerial statement on Sudan

    International Development Secretary issues written ministerial statement on Sudan

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ministerial statement on Sudan

    Ministerial statement on Sudan by the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Helping HIV positive mothers have HIV negative children

    A DFID funded project is helping to increase the number of HIV negative babies that are born in South Africa

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  • Haiti: the crisis in context

    The devastation wreaked by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti is the third time this Caribbean nation has suffered at the hands of natural disasters in a little over two years.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Britain to reinforce humanitarian support in Haiti

    Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate across Haiti. One thousand, one hundred people have already died from the disease, thousands of people are infected and the number continues to rise steeply.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Vital lifeline to British territory to be repaired

    A storm-damaged harbour on the remote British Overseas Territory of Tristan Da Cunha is to undergo emergency repairs in an effort to prevent the island from being cut off from its only access to outside supplies and help.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to help drive low carbon revolution

    Two new public-private partnership projects to generate renewable energy in developing countries, removing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and powering up to four million rural homes in Africa, will …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • British NGOs working in partnership in Peru

    British NGOs supported by DFID have produced a bulletin describing their joint efforts to tackle discrimination and inequality.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Climate change

    Speech by Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary, at a Climate and Development Knowledge Network event at British Council on 18 November 2010.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nigeria project wins award

    A major DFID project to assist the Government of Nigeria to better plan, finance and operate infrastructure has won the prestigious British Expertise Development Project of the Year award.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Former child soldiers share story with UK minister

    Former child soldiers from Uganda have met with Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien, during their visit to the UK. The children, who are supported by the relief charity, Watoto, thanked the MP for the UK’…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Emergency aid to Burma

    The UK Government will give emergency food, water, sanitation and health care to more than a hundred thousand people in Burma as the full scale of destruction caused by Cyclone Giri has become clear

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Hygiene, sanitation and water: Forgotten foundations of health

    PUSS O'Brien launches a Sanitation & Water Series published in Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Pakistan Development Forum

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell's speech to the Pakistan Development Forum in Islamabad on 15 November 2010.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DFID Research: Women and the media in Bangladesh

    Research carried out by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment programme in Dhaka has explored how media is affecting the lives of women in Bangladesh

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  • Sleeping safely under bednets

    How a DFID funded project in Kenya is protecting millions of people from malaria

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  • Lord Paddy Ashdown visits flood-affected Pakistan

    Lord Ashdown has been in Pakistan this week on a fact-finding mission as part of the UK’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mitchell announces new mine clearance plans

    The UK Government will overhaul its support for mine clearance programmes in order to focus on high impact zones.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HIV care and support

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Consultation on CDC reform begins

    International Development Secretary announces launch of public consultation on the reform of CDC, the UK owned development finance institution.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government