G7 Summit: Britain to give £90m to help children in war zones go to school, Boris Johnson announces

Britain is to give £90m to help children in conflict zones go to school, Boris Johnson has announced.

Announcing the aid boost at the G7 summit in France, the prime minister said it would help an estimated 600,000 children, particularly girls, in some of the world’s most dangerous and unstable countries.

He called on other rich-world countries to devote a greater proportion of their aid budget to education, which currently accounts for less than 2 per cent of global humanitarian assistance.