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To help refugees return to their native countries, the United States awarded over 126 million dollars to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The aid is also to provide food, health care, and education, among other necessities.

This is about the potential dangers of foreign aid. Donors to Mali are insisting that the cotton industry be privatized. However, this poses a thread to the economy.

Pakistan could become the UK's biggest aid recipient by 2015.

Money from rich countries has trapped many African nations in a cycle of corruption, slower economic growth and poverty. Cutting off the flow would be far more beneficial.

A group of United States congressmen yesterday sent a letter drafted with their legislative counterparts in Korea to Presidents Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak urging the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea bilateral free trade agreement. The letter calls for restrictions on certain service industries and a revision of provisions on a dispute settlement mechanism involving foreign companies. Beef and auto provisions, the main stumbling block to the ratification of the pact on the U.S. side, were not mentioned.

This article is about Zimbabwe's need to sell diamonds in order to service debts to the IMF.