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  • Protection for 4.7 million from malaria in Ghana

    The UK government has announced aid to protect nearly 5 million people in Ghana from malaria, including nearly 1 million children under the age of five.

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

  • Lynne Featherstone new violence against women champion

    The coalition government today launched a strategic vision of how they plan to tackle violence against women and girls.

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

  • A generation free of HIV

    How DFID is helping to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies in Zimbabwe

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  • Jeremy Browne visits Guatemala

    Minister Jeremy Browne MP, FCO Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, will be visiting Guatemala on 26 November. It is his first trip to the country, and the first by a UK Minister since April 2008.

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

  • British troops help Afghan farmers abandon poppy for wheat

    Over two days, the Afghan National Police (ANP), supported by British troops from The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment…

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

  • Royal Marines destroy pirate vessel

    Royal Marines based onboard a Royal Navy warship destroyed a boat yesterday that was being used by pirates off the coast of Somalia to attack merchant ships.

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

  • Foreign Secretary condemns North Korea's 'unprovoked attack' on South Korea

    Foreign Secretary William Hague has spoken following this morning's artillery attack by North Korea on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.

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

  • Helmand policemen graduate from training

    The next generation of Afghan policemen are beginning their new careers, having completed their British-led training and graduated.

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

  • UK Government to reinvigorate relationship with Overseas Territories

    A new strategy that will reinvigorate the UK's relationship with its Overseas Territories will be at the heart of discussions at the annual Overseas Territories Consultative Council on 17 November.

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

  • RAF students join the Afghan Air Force Thunder Lab

    Two recent graduates from the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury have arrived in Afghanistan to start their two-month embed with their Afghan counterparts

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

  • Afghan Elvis stages huge concert in Helmand

    In a sign of a radically-improved security situation in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah’s Karzai Stadium played host to a concert by world…

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

  • British and Afghan forces drive Taliban out of Helmand village

    Residents of the area - known to British forces as the ‘Red Wedge’ - are seeing stability return and their lives getting back to normal following…

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

  • PM - combat troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by 2015

    Prime Minister David Cameron has said the withdrawal of British combat troops from Afghanistan by 2015 was a 'firm deadline' that would be met.

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

  • First female graduates from Defence Diving School

    The first female to train as a Royal Navy Minewarfare and Clearance Diving Officer (MCDO) has graduated from the Defence Diving School.

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

  • Trial begins for former vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Minister for Africa Henry Bellingham has spoken after the International Criminal Court (ICC) began trial proceedings against Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo.

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

  • 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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  • Faithful Gather at Kandahar Air Field for Eid al-Adha

    Celebrations for last week's Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha at the military base in Kandahar were led by the Imam to the British Armed Forces.

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

  • Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne visits Mexico

    Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne will meet key inward investors and UK businesses based in Mexico during his visit from 20 to 24 November.

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