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Britain to help Africa achieve greater food security and fight malnutrition Britain will improve food supply and farming across Africa to help pull 50 million people out of chronic poverty over the next ten years in conjunction with the private sector, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

Today the British Government announced urgent support for the Malawian health system to prevent the cancellation of vital vaccination and bed net programmes.

The emergency support for the Malawian health system will provide:

  • malaria and TB drugs

  • therapeutic feeding for malnourished children

  • training equipment for new health workers

  • support services delivered by the Christian Health Association of Malawi.

Today the British Government announced it will match all donations given by the public pound for pound as part of Soccer Aid 2012 to help UNICEF save even more children's lives.

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This report provides a comprehensive view of gender in Nigeria. It assesses progress in key areas, including: employment and livelihoods, education and health, political representation, and violence. It finds that women and girls suffer systematic disadvantage and discrimination that is magnified for those in the poorest States and sectors of society. It recommends policies to improve the lives of women and girls and identifies priorities for action.

International day of the Midwife on the 5 May 2012 celebrates midwives worldwide and highlights the challenges and achievements they are making every day to save mothers’ and babies’ lives.

08 MAY 2012

Volunteer British doctors, nurses and midwives will train more than 13,000 health workers to provide life-saving care for millions of the world’s poorest people, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

Skilled health professionals from Britain will teach and offer practical assistance to their counterparts in the developing world under the Government’s Health Partnership Scheme. Over four years, the flagship programme will:

British aid to the DRC is helping to pull people out of poverty - providing clean water and sanitation for 3.7 million people, helping to tackle malaria, building and improving roads and getting hundreds of thousands of children into school.

Britain will provide additional emergency support to help 100,000 people facing severe food shortages in South Sudan, International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien announced today after visiting its volatile border with Sudan.

He warned of a looming humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands of people already facing hunger due to poor rain, insecurity and an influx of returnees from Sudan.

It's moth season in Kinshasa.

Every month here seems to bring different insects. Sometimes it's giant flying beetles. Other times it's swarms of brown paper-like flies. Just now there are moths everywhere - moths as big as my two hands; tiny moths; you name it.

But every season here is mosquito season.

Being a wet, equatorial country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffers from malaria across 97% of the country.

The burden of malaria in the DRC is enormous, and alone the country accounts for nearly 10% of all malaria cases in Africa.

Malaria remains a huge threat to the lives of millions of people in the developing world and is one of the UK Government's biggest priorities. Over 655,000 people continue to die from the disease every year. And yet it is both treatable and preventable.

Today, on World Malaria Day, we look at the progress that has been made to combat the disease, the challenges that lie ahead and how the UK Government is responding.

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Britain will help more than 60 million people get access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation over the lifetime of this parliament, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

Every hour, 167 children die from diarrhoea, the vast majority of these deaths due to lack of access to safe water and sanitation. The UK believes much more support for developing countries is needed to stop further deaths and is playing its part in the new global momentum to tackle these issues.

New research funded by UK aid has uncovered huge stores of groundwater in Africa – a vital resource that could give millions of people across the continent access to safe drinking water.

Across Africa over 300 million people don't have access to safe drinking water. But today's findings show the volume of water available underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface – water which could be tapped to meet the need.

New support from Britain will help hospitals provide trauma surgery for hundreds of Syrians injured in the conflict and medical care for thousands more, as well as ensuring refugees in neighbouring Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon get food, clean water, shelter, electricity and healthcare, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

Speaking at the Willis Re event "Building International Disaster Resilience to Extreme Weather - How Public & Private Sectors are Gearing Up", Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said:

"The Coalition Government is committed to working with the private sector to drive innovation and make our development support go further.

Andrew Mitchell's speech held at Willis Re focussed on helping poor countries to build up their resilience to the impacts of climate change

Thank you Rowan and thank you to Willis Re for hosting us all this evening. It’s wonderful to be able to address you here. Willis Re has a proud history that spans nearly two centuries. During its lifetime, it has seen the world change beyond recognition.

More than 50,000 farmers’ livelihoods will be transformed in the Bamyan province of Afghanistan, through a new agricultural initiative supported by the British Government.

The programme will give famers access to cutting edge agricultural techniques, improving their livelihoods and those of their families.

The Bamyan Agricultural Support Programme (ASP) works with 40 farmer cooperatives to give members access to modern farming equipment such as tractors, high quality wheat and potato seed, and support for small business development.

The UK Government will fund a range of innovative projects to save more lives in emergencies such as earthquakes, floods and famines

Smart phone 'apps', super buckets and satellite technology could soon be helping people survive major disasters as part of a British Government scheme that will champion breakthroughs in innovation and science over the next three years.

How UK aid and the HALO Trust are helping farmers grow again

In the west of Herat province in western Afghanistan, just a few miles from the border with Iran, what looks like a desert is being transformed into fertile, arable fields. A brand new tractor appears to be busily at work, ploughing a vast tract of land. But as you get closer, you realise that this is no ordinary tractor; it's armoured, and it's not ploughing. It's actually digging up landmines.

The United Kingdom, through its Department for International Development (DFID) has announced an allocation of US$38 million to the second phase of the Education Transition Fund which is managed by the United Nations Children's Fund in Zimbabwe