International Aid

How the Taliban elicits praise from the communities it has deprived of aid

The Taliban has sought to control its image in rural communities through the strategic blocking and release of international aid.

India Covid crisis: Supply deficits, donor aid and appeals for data

India is in a desperate fight to deal with skyrocketing infections in a surge fast becoming bigger and deadlier across South Asia, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a bid to bring a massive humanitarian crisis under control.

Fury rages in Lebanon as violent protests follow disastrous explosion

The port blast is taking popular anger to a new level in a country already reeling from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis and near bankruptcy.

Western, Arab nations commit $1.8B for Sudan's democratic transition

Much of the pledged amount will be used to fund an ambitious $1.9 billion cash transfer programme to Sudan's neediest families, around 80 percent of the population, over the course of two years.

Is foreign financing influencing Lebanese elections?

International donors have pledged $11 billion in financing to Lebanon four weeks before the election. Considering the rampant corruption in the country, it's worth asking if this gives an edge to Lebanon's incumbents.