From aid campaigner to Africa minister: Can Kirsty McNeill rebuild Britain’s standing on the continent?
” Sheriff Bojang Jnr Also in this In Depth UK-Africa: How Britain replaced aid cheques with project architecture Nigeria’s Lagos ports illustrate Britain’s new pitch to Africa: the UK’s new prime minister Andy Burnham inherits a development team that can make tough projects financeable, with guarantees and risk engineering.
Just hours ahead of the announcement of her appointment as minister for development and Africa, prime minister Andy Burnham revealed that around £400m ($535m) earmarked for international climate projects would be converted from grants into loans to help finance the return of England’s £2 bus fare cap.
When the government folded the Department for International Development (DFID) into the Foreign Office, she argued it had weakened one of Britain’s most effective institutions, reducing the country’s focus on poverty while triggering an exodus of development expertise.
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