As Africa locks down, some deliveries of aid are threatened

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A special edition of BBC World Service’s global radio programme, BBC Africa Debate, will be coming from the British Museum in London. Presented by the BBC’s Alex Jakana and Zeinab Badawi and recorded in front of an invited audience, it will ask if Africa has outgrown development aid.
Ten years ago the British Museum hosted the launch of the UK-government-led ‘Commission for Africa’. This was the time of a popular global movement to Make Poverty History in Africa, a revival of Live Aid...

Superstar French economist Thomas Piketty has warned that international aid could be “undermining” Africa as the continent struggles to lift millions out of poverty despite robust economic growth.

The UK's new hard-nosed approach to African aid is greeted with cynicism, writes the BBC's Andrew Harding.

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EU leaders are expected to offer countries in Africa billions of euros in exchange for help with the migrant crisis at a summit in Malta.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta urges African leaders to give up foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity.

Patrice Bart-Williams, who is among a group musicians who recorded a German version of the Band aid song on Ebola, says he is not entirely happy with the outcome.

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