East Africa: Overseas Aid

(asked on 9th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the breakdown of financial support for (1) Ethiopia, (2) Sudan, and (3) Somalia, in the past three years.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

The amount of direct bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) the UK has provided in the last three years is set out in the table below:

Table: UK bilateral ODA to Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia 1

£ million.

2014

2015

2016

Ethiopia

322

339

334

Sudan

50

55

65

Somalia

124

122

152

1. All figures rounded to the nearest million

Source: Statistics on International Development 2017

ODA is a measure of official resource flows (aid) to developing countries that promotes the economic benefit and welfare of developing countries as the main objective.

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