The Age has a front page feature hinting at corruption in Nauru, as the China Harbour Corporation wins an ADB contract to expand Nauru’s port at Aiwo. But the article never explains how Australia pushed through the contract in the first place. THREAD
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Big turnout at the World Health Summit in Melbourne, which I’m covering for Devex (come say hi).

Only person seen wearing a mask so far ? Former NZ PM Helen Clark

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Adam Tooze IMF World Bank Center for Global Development Mark Sobel Brad Setser david_mcnair Albert Pinto Clemence Landers Lawrence H. Summers For the The EBRD mobilizing EU funding, private sector and focusing on MENA came at a cost of having to manage its democracy mandate. See
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Martin Selmayr has been nominated as the EU Ambassador to the Holy See, Order of Malta & UN Organisations -
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Four executives of the investment firm Climate Fund Managers earned millions by investing taxpayers’ money in renewable energy. These investments are highly profitable because governments provide the first tranche of funding and take on all the risks. ftm.eu/articles/clima…

#China has become #SoutheastAsia ’s largest infrastructure financing partner. Yet there is an enormous gap between what Beijing promises and what it has actually delivered, amounting to more than $50 billion in unfulfilled project financing.

The World Health Organization and three development banks are crafting a platform focused on strengthening primary health systems in low- and middle-income countries. This is what we know so far. devex.com/news/what-we-k…

Victoire Carous from Lombard Odier Investment on the refillable bathroom products brand 900 Care, which her fund is backing to reduce plastic waste.

New: The story of the poor indigenous Peruvians working —sometimes even for free— helping the world’s richest person sell $9,000 vicuña sweaters

It is the finest wool in the world, but in the Andes, they see none of the wealth bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

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The Senegalese government has deployed en elite EU-funded unit, meant to fight cross-border crime, to repress protesters during pro-democracy demonstrations in Senegal, according to evidence me and ✳️José Ant Bautista published in Al Jazeera English today with ✳️porCausa

Human suffering #Gaza is unmatched; 10,000s dead, more than million people fleeing, famine. Humanitarian aid is blocked or comes under fire.

We will not stand by and watch. Belgium will air-drop humanitarian aid for Gaza population.

devex.com/news/scoop-eu-… As Brussels was agreeing to help fund the OACPS Secretariat for another 20 years, it was also spending over a quarter of a million euros to supervise the group's inadequate bookkeeping.

Please read this painstaking investigation by giulia paravicini into the secret Ethiopian committee that has ordered hundreds of arrests and dozens of killings - including the massacre of 14 shepherds in 2021 - to crush an insurgency in the Oromiya region
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DFAT has just released the statistical summary for Australia's $4.8 billion development cooperation program for 2022-23.

What does it show?👇

From pesticides to alcohol labeling (👋 animal welfare & SFS), von der Leyen is taking an ax to any potentially vote-losing policies.

Decisions were taken from the top with no clear explanation given, officials told us.

With Carlo Martuscelli Bartosz Brzeziński ⤵️
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The Asian Development Bank saw a huge leap in climate finance commitments in 2023 (first graphic). So I asked for a breakdown, particularly of that adaptation figure (second graphic). Thoughts? Charles Kenny Harjeet Singh