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Yemen Opposition Rejects Plan for Govt of National Unity
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Britain to stop foreign aid to 16 countries
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The UK is to stop direct aid to 16 countries, including Russia, China and Iraq, papers seen by the BBC suggest.
Why would Russia and China need direct aid?
A draft copy of a government review of its £7.8bn overseas aid budget - to be published this week - also reveals assistance for India will be frozen. But, overall, the international development budget will rise by a third in this parliament, it says.

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said spending would be a "good deal better focused".

Resources will be concentrated on the 27 countries that account for three-quarters of the world's maternal mortality and malaria deaths, such as Ghana and Afghanistan.
In other words, the bottom billion.

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Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about aid to "Palestinians"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2011 13:00 Comments || Top||

#2  we should follow the lead and end aid too ALL countries
Posted by: chris || 03/01/2011 18:18 Comments || Top||



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