The medical charity Global Fund is denying allegations it awarded sizeable contracts without tender to a friend of French First Lady Carla Bruni (pictured), who is a Global Fund ambassador. The charges appeared in French weekly Marianne.
The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq left thousands of mercenaries from Uganda out of work. Now many of them have traded in their Pentagon paycheques for ones from the US State department. Meanwhile, four years after the murder of a French aid worker in Burundi, her sister is fighting to find out just how she died. Finally, a 75-year-old from Senegal proves it's never too late to release your first album.
A US congressional panel has frozen $700 million in aid to push Pakistan into taking action against the spread of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The cutback is a fraction of the billions in aid Pakistan receives from the US annually.
Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebels on Monday ordered 16 international aid agencies to close, saying they lacked political neutrality and warning against any activities deemed "detrimental to the attainment of an Islamic state".
The world’s biggest aid donor is not the United States but in fact the European Union. Yet will they be able to keep it up with the eurozone facing a titanic debt crisis? Annette Young talks to Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, who’s now working hard to convince European politicians not to cut aid programs.
Two Western aid workers and their Somali colleague were kidnapped on Tuesday by gunmen in northern Somalia in the second abduction of Western aid agency staff in the region this month.
Two Spanish aid workers and an Italian were kidnapped early Sunday by suspected al Qaeda militants in a Sahrawi refugee camp near Tindouf in western Algeria, officials and security forces reported.
Two female employees of the Doctors Without Borders aid group were kidnapped Thursday from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border. Local police sources say they suspect Somali Islamist rebels were responsible.
Who's to blame for Somalia’s severe famine? Al-Shabaab militias may have abandoned parts of the capital but as witnessed in the report by France 24’s James André, feeding Mogadishu remains just as dangerous a task.
The Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has retreated from the Somali capital but vows to wage a guerrilla war against the African Union mission sent in to bolster government troops. FRANCE 24 joined a Somali army patrol in Mogadishu.
