Overview

• Bill Gates emphasizes the need for increased financial support to African countries, which have seen a decline in aid due to global crises like the war in Ukraine.
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Goalkeeper's report focuses on child malnutrition, projecting worsening conditions due to climate change.
• Gates calls for debt relief for low- and middle-income countries, recalling a 2005 initiative that wiped out $40 billion in debts for 18 of the world's poorest nations.
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reported a 20-year low in aid to African countries in 2022, despite overall development assistance increasing since 2019.
• Melinda French Gates stepped down as co-chair of the foundation in May, leaving Bill Gates as the sole principal, with the foundation planning to grant $8.4 billion in 2024.