The World Bank Group’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) today made its first-ever financial commitment, approving a $12 million grant towards the current Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The grant, approved today at an emergency meeting of the PEF Steering Body, will be made from the Cash Window of the PEF.

The parliament passed a bill in May that gives the UK government new powers to respond to gross violations of human rights overseas, which in turn could have a positive impact on development and humanitarian work in development countries.

As a graduate student in Cambridge almost 20 years ago, Pauline Essah asked herself: “Where are the other Africans?” Today she manages the University’s expanding Cambridge-Africa programme. It funds more than 150 collaborative projects in 18 countries across Africa.

Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.