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 Bill Gates says Ukraine’s portion of aid funding is ‘substantial’.

The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says the richest governments should increase support for African countries that have been overshadowed by development funding increasingly going toward the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine.

“There’s less money going to Africa at a time when they need it,” whether it’s for debt relief, vaccinations or to reduce malnutrition, Gates told The Associated Press in an interview. As a portion of aid money, the funds going to Ukraine are “substantial,” he said.

Gates was speaking in the context of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeeper’s report published on Tuesday.

The report holds a mirror to countries’ promises to achieve development goals they set in 2015 and calculates progress for a subset of the Sustainable Development Goals that reflect the priorities of the foundation, which is one of the largest global health funders in the world.

The administration of United States President Joe Biden said on Saturday it was preparing a large aid package for Ukraine in the coming weeks.