Monthly Archives: July 2011

The President of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB), Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali will participate in the G8 Deauville Partnership Investment Conference in London, on 16 September 2013. The Investment Conference is organized by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in cooperation with IDB and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Deauville Partnership initiative was launched...

Donors have pledged 1.8bn euros ($2.4bn; £1.5bn) at a conference in Brussels to help Somalia end more than two decades of conflict.

The money is part of a "New Deal" for what is widely regarded as a failed state, officials said. Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab dismissed the meeting as "Belgian waffle". Al-Shabab is fighting to oust Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's...