What’s the FM’s Africa trip all about?
As John Swinney heads to Malawi to mark a 20-year partnership, Martin Geissler and Natalie Higgins discuss why international aid spending has dropped down the political agenda.
John Swinney is travelling to Malawi to celebrate 20 years of a Scottish-funded aid-and-development programme in the African country.
Labour’s former first minister Lord Jack McConnell, who signed the Scotland Malawi Partnership in 2005, tells us how it all came about.
And Martin and Natalie discuss why international aid spending has dropped down the political agenda.
Scotcast is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Natalie Higgins and Laura Miller.
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