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13/10
The effects of the current financial crisis on the world's poorest people came under discussion this weekend during a major meeting of the World Bank.
13/10
Rwanda's history-making women MPs united today to launch a campaign to reduce the number of mothers who die in childbirth.
12/10
Governments, the IMF and the World Bank, need to act together to help developing countries cope with the twin shocks of a global financial crisis and high commodity prices, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said.
11/10
Millions of families across Kenya will be better protected against malaria this weekend as a result of a UK Government-funded campaign to upgrade every bed-net in the country.
08/10
On 8 October 2005 an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck 100 kilometres north of Pakistan''s capital, Islamabad. The world saw TV images of hospitals flattened, homes razed to their foundations, families cleaved apart, and roads, bridges, power and hope lost.
07/10
International Development Minister Gareth Thomas today said that the world needed to get smarter at dealing with the increasing number of floods, hurricanes, droughts and other humanitarian crises.
07/10
On Tuesday 7 October, Gareth Thomas spoke in Geneva to humanitarian aid experts from the UN, including UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
06/10
Annual report of Africa Conflict Prevention Programme published
05/10
Details of changes made to DFID's ministerial team
03/10
This summer, one of DFID's key partners in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) held its second Summer Games in Gaza. A quarter of a million children in 324 locations took part in the UNRWA festivities.
