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Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an international NGO, claiming that Oxfam has ‘disappeared up its own posterior’. Aside from the fact that there are few more disheartening indications of how far British political standards have fallen – for all their faults, there is simply no way that a member of, for example, the Conservative government of Howard Macmillan would ever have reduced thems

The US government has threatened to cut aid to states which vote against it tomorrow at the UN General Assembly. As noted here previously, the Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting because the US has – against international law – declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and then vetoed a Resolution voted for by every single other member of the UN Security Council which aimed to prevent Jerusalem being declared Israel’s capital while the state is illegally-occupying

At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there continues, because of debt. The global aid system is failing to deliver for refugees, and as noted here previously, this has forced organisations including the World Food Programme to slash the services – including food – they can give to people living in refugee camps. At Dadaab, the result was that many people had to get food from Kenyan busin

There are more than 73,000 South Sudanese refugees who have entered DRC since 1 January 2016, and the crossing of the border between the two states – by refugees fleeing DRC as well as those fleeing Sudan and now South Sudan as well – is nothing new. But the two states have a patchy history, and for example, in 1998, when there were 130.000 Sudanese refugees in DRC, the Sudanese People’s Army followed them over the border, and harried the DRC natives while attempting to force