Western countries have slashed foreign aid budgets this year and reductions will steepen in 2026, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada cutting the most, according to a new analysis from the Center for Global Development (CGD).

Israel is deporting six more activists who were detained when it seized an aid boat bound for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Israel’s use of aid as a weapon of war has provoked outrage. It has prevented essential supplies from entering Gaza. And yet its new effort to distribute aid is also proving deeply controversial. Hamas says it is a front for the idf. International aid organisations have decried it. What is this new network and what is it trying to do?

The team is looking to source and verify material after the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - a group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution - said Hamas attacked a bus killing five of its workers. Hamas has so far not commented on the allegation

East African finance chiefs increased planned spending to a record to sustain economic growth and mitigate the effects of geopolitical risks and cuts in foreign aid.

China has issued over $1 trillion in loans and grants for tens of thousands of projects across the developing world.

The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world climbed above 122 million this year due to a failure to resolve multi-year conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the U.N.