Written Question

Zambia: Droughts

Wednesday 10th April 2024

Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports from UNICEF that the 2023–24 El Niño phenomenon has led to the declaration of a national emergency in Zambia.

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

We share UNICEF's assessment that the El Nino phenomenon has contributed to failed rains across Southern Africa, resulting in serious drought in both Zambia and Malawi, which in turn will have a serious impact on children and the most vulnerable. We welcome the swift actions of Presidents Hichilema (Zambia) and Chakwera (Malawi) in declaring a state of national disaster and emergency across Zambia and within 23 out of 28 districts in Malawi.

In Zambia, the UK is committing to the rapid expansion of the Social Cash Transfer scheme to reduce food insecurity for an additional 6 million people and pivoting our existing nutrition programmes to expand access to treatment. We deployed a UK Humanitarian Stabilisation Operations Team to support the Government of Zambia's drought response coordination. In Malawi, the UK has contributed to the Government's investment into disaster risk financing instruments which will provide an immediate response when triggered. The Malawian Government is currently preparing its own El Nino Response Plan which will outline further international assistance requirements. The UK will continue to monitor the situation closely.

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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) The paper quoted from a survey of 4,000 people in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa - Speech Link

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Parliamentary Research
Human rights in Sri Lanka - CDP-2024-0066
Mar. 19 2024

Found: This statement is on behalf of the Sri Lanka Core Group comprising Canada, Malawi, Montenegro, North

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Deposited Papers

Mar. 19 2024

Source Page: British Council 2022-23 Annual report and accounts. 141p.
Document: British.pdf (PDF)

Found: Korea Seoul Kuwait Kuwait City Latvia Riga Lebanon Beirut Libya Tripoli Lithuania Vilnius Malawi

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 18 2024

Source Page: UK-Africa Health Summit 2024: Minister Andrew Mitchell's speech
Document: UK-Africa Health Summit 2024: Minister Andrew Mitchell's speech (webpage)

Found: For example, in Malawi, our global Health System Connect programme is supporting the government to ensure

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Written Question

Military Attachés

Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2023 to Question 1027 on Military Attachés, if he will publish an updated list of countries without a resident UK Defence Attache.

Answered by James Heappey

The Global Defence Network (GDN) utilises Resident and Non-Resident Defence Attachés (DA), who engage in Defence diplomacy in over three-quarters of the world’s nations. The table below has a list of countries covered on a Non-Residential Accreditations (NRA) basis, where a UK DA is not resident in country, but a DA elsewhere has the responsibility.

Country (NRA)	Location of DA
Angola	Mozambique - Maputo
Anguilla (British overseas territory)	Jamaica - Kingston
Antigua & Barbuda	Jamaica - Kingston
Armenia	Georgia – Tbilisi
Azerbaijan	Georgia – Tbilisi
Bahamas	Jamaica - Kingston
Barbados	Jamaica - Kingston
Belarus	Ukraine – Kyiv
Belize	Jamaica - Kingston
Benin	Accra - Ghana
Bermuda (British overseas territory)	USA – Washington DC
Botswana	Harare - Zimbabwe
British Virgin Islands (British overseas territory)	Jamaica - Kingston
Burkina Faso	Ghana - Accra
Burundi	Uganda – Kampala
Cambodia	(In process of transferring to) Vietnam - Hanoi
Cayman Islands (British overseas territory)	Jamaica – Kingston
Chad	Cameroon - Yaoundé
Cuba	Mexico – Mexico City
Djibouti	Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
Dominica	Jamaica - Kingston
Dominican Republic	Jamaica - Kingston
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kampala - Uganda
Eritrea	Sana’a - Yemen (temporarily relocated to Riyadh)
Ecuador	Bogota - Colombia
Grenada	Jamaica - Kingston
Guinea	Sierra Leone – Freetown
Guyana	Jamaica - Kingston
Guatemala	Mexico – Mexico City
Guinea-Bissau	Senegal - Dakar
Haiti	Jamaica - Kingston
Hungary	Croatia - Zagreb
Iceland	Norway - Oslo
Ivory Coast	Ghana – Accra
Khartoum	Egypt - Cairo
Kosovo	Macedonia - Skopje
Kyrgyzstan	Kazakhstan – Astana
Laos	(in process of transferring to) Vietnam - Hanoi
Lesotho	South Africa - Pretoria
Liberia	Sierra Leone - Freetown
Luxembourg	Belgium - Brussels
Malawi	Zimbabwe – Harare
Mali	Senegal - Dakar
Malta	Rome - Italy
Mauritania	Morocco – Rabat
Monaco	France – Paris
Mongolia	Japan – Tokyo
Myanmar	Thailand - Bangkok
Montserrat (British overseas territory)	Jamaica - Kingston
Namibia	South Africa – Pretoria
Niger	Cameroon – Yaoundé
Papua New Guinea	Australia – Canberra
Paraguay	Argentina – Buenos Aires
Peru	Colombia - Bogota
Rwanda	Uganda – Kampala
Seychelles	Kenya - Nairobi
St Kitts & Nevis	Jamaica - Kingston
St Lucia	Jamaica - Kingston
St Vincent	Jamaica - Kingston
Slovakia	Czech Rep - Prague
Slovenia	Austria – Vienna
South Sudan	Addis Ababa – Ethiopia
Switzerland	Vienna - Austria
Syria	Lebanon - Beirut
Tajikistan	Kazakhstan – Astana
Tanzania	Kenya – Nairobi
The Gambia	Senegal - Dakar
Timor-Leste (East Timor)	Indonesia - Jakarta
Togo	Ghana – Accra
Tonga	Fiji – Suva
Trinidad & Tobago	Jamaica - Kingston
Turkmenistan	Uzbekistan - Tashkent
Turks & Caicos Islands (British overseas territory)	Jamaica - Kingston
Uruguay	Argentina - Buenos Aires
Vanuatu	Fiji – Suva
Venezuela	Bogota - Colombia
Zambia	Zimbabwe - Harare
Supported by MOD from in the UK
Cape Verdi Islands
Congo
Gabon
Panama
Puerto Rica

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