Kenya urges Africa to give up aid

Ireland will continue to co-operate with Tanzania to promote higher education, according to Irish Ambassador Fionnuala Gilsenan.

The US offers $180m (£107m) in aid for the growing food crisis in South Sudan, as UN envoys meet with warring factions to end the conflict there.

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...

Why some Africans criticise Geldof over Band Aid 30

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

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.

Two aid workers are rescued by the Kenyan army after three years in the hands of Somali militant group al-Shabab, the military says.

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.

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