After her meeting with Chapo on 16 March the EU's Crisis Management Commissioner Hadja Lahbib said that the EU would provide €20m in humanitarian aid to Mozambique towards the costs of internal displacement caused by the insurgency in Cabo Delgado as well as ‘food assistance healthcare protection clean water and education for children cut off from school by violence and disaster...

In February the EU's Equality and Humanitarian Aid commissioner Hadja Lahbib made a three-day trip to eastern Congo-K and Burundi including Goma Ulvira the town less than 5km from the Burundian border which was captured by the M23 militia group earlier this year and the Busuma refugee camp in Burundi which currently hosts more than 65 000 people...

A meeting in Davos last month hosted by EU Crisis Management and Equality Commissioner Hadja Lahbib and aimed at building ‘new alliances for aid and development' with business pointed to its direction of travel (Dispatches 26/1/26 Davos leaders vow to build new aid agenda)...

Reynders had hoped for a second term in Ursula von der Leyen's EU Commission but was replaced as Belgium's nominee by Hadja Lahbib...

Belgian justice minister Hadja Lahbib has told her Congolese counterpart Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner of her concerns...