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Horn of Africa food crisis - latest updates

03 February 2012

Lifesaving UK government help for more than a million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia

Aung San Suu Kyi praises UK aid in Burma

02 February 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi praised the work of DFID in Burma during a high-profile visit to a UK funded project on Tuesday.

World must address failure in Somalia

30 January 2012

Britain will provide new support for health services, which will benefit over 100,000 women and children, and for weapons management that will see more weapons taken off the streets

UK and partners unite to combat tropical diseases

30 January 2012

Private and public partners unite to combat 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020

PM and Afghan President sign Strategic Partnership

28 January 2012

Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at Chequers, where they signed an Enduring Strategic Partnership between the UK and Afghanistan.

Private investment to help tackle climate change

27 January 2012

Britain will spearhead a new drive to bring major private investment to tackle the global threat of climate change

Minister answers pupils' questions on safer countries

26 January 2012

School presented with International Award by Minister for International Development, Alan Duncan

Innovative funding scheme delivers lifesaving vaccines

26 January 2012

Private donations – to be doubled by the UK Government – will help immunise millions more children around the world

Emergency aid to tackle looming food crisis in Sahel

22 January 2012

Britain will send lifesaving emergency aid to help thousands of families facing severe food shortages caused by drought in the Sahel region of West Africa.

UK to protect 140 million people from tropical diseases

21 January 2012

UK aid will help global effort to rid the world of infectious tropical diseases