‘A hammer blow’: how UK overseas aid cuts affect the world’s most vulnerable

Axe falls on projects for Yemen, Syria, Rohingya refugees and people affected by famine in Africa

The government claimed Britain would be a force for good" in the world when it defended merging the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office last year, but it soon announced 4bn in cuts to aid.

Charities instead warned the world's most vulnerable people would be hit by the deadly force" of Britain's new policies.