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  1. How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

    With more spending going to defence, the latest budget cut will take Britain’s aid contribution to its lowest for a quarter of a century Keir Starmer’s decision this week to slash Britain’s overseas aid budget and divert to defence spending will take UK aid to developing countries to its lowest level in a generation. It will almost halve the already diminished aid pot, from 0.58% of national income to 0.3%. In 2023, the total aid spend was £15.34bn, almost a third of which was spent on supporting and housing refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. The last time Britain’s aid contribution dropped below 0.3% was a quarter of a century ago, in 1999. Starmer’s move raised concerns among cabinet ministers, who feared it risked reducing soft power and made migration more likely, and outraged humanitarians and aid agencies who warned of a “devastating” impact on the world’s poorest. Continue reading...

  2. Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’

    Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies Saudi Arabia’s forces are accused of using indiscriminate force against migrants on their borders, with reports of deaths and injuries and multiple accounts of women being raped.t. Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross from neighbouring Yemen between 2019 and 2024 have given accounts to the Guardian of coming under machine gun fire and of seeing bodies rotting in the border area. Continue reading...

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