Department For International Development News
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M-KOPA Kenya Ltd., backed by a Royal Dutch Shell Plc-funded charity, sees sales of its solar-lighting system that allows users to pay by phone surging 13-fold as mobile operators roll out banking services in Africa.
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The most advanced tuberculosis vaccine in 90 years failed to boost protection against the deadly disease when added to the shot given routinely to children, in a setback to the quest for global TB control.
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The U.K. plans to provide Rwanda with 330 million pounds ($536 million) of budget support over the next four years, according to an e-mailed statement from the Kigali-based Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
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Malawi’s major donors said the country needs to urgently address economic and political concerns for them to resume aid to the southern African nation.
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Former Nigerian Delta State Governor James Ibori pleaded guilty in London to stealing millions of dollars from the West African nation while he was in power.
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The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo expects to pass a revised mining code before the end of the year, Valery Mukasa, Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu’s chief of staff, said.
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Europe’s debt crisis has brought down governments, roiled markets and triggered austerity measures affecting millions. Now it may kill.
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The U.K. more than doubled its aid to Pakistan’s flood victims, taking the government’s commitment to 134 million pounds ($209 million).
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Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants increasing trade to be the central goal of British diplomats and aid workers.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency will begin inviting bids from investors to buy packages of foreclosed properties to be offered as rentals.
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