Africa History: Your daily selection of IRIN Africa English reports, 3/17/2015

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Your daily selection of IRIN Africa English reports, 3/17/2015

	humanitarian news and analysis

Table of contents
1. Coaxing the dragon: Why China should join the great aid debate
2. Outsourcing asylum

Coaxing the dragon: Why China should join the great aid debate

LONDON, 17 March 2015 (IRIN) - Amid the countless meetings, summits and conferences being held around the world to determine the post-2015 development agenda and the future of humanitarian aid, how much attention is being paid to the growing role of China? Not enough perhaps, but the wariness cuts both ways. James Wan, fellow at the Wits University China-Africa Reporting Project in South Africa, argues it's time for China to get its hands dirty in the great aid debate.
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Outsourcing asylum

LONDON, 17 March 2015 (IRIN) - As the EU considers outsourcing asylum screening to North Africa, our Migration Editor looks at what lessons can be learned from Australia's use of offshore processing for asylum seekers.
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