The British Council is to close offices in nine countries, including Mozambique and Tanzania, becoming the latest international development organisation to scale back its global footprint amid a wider squeeze on aid funding.
The organisation, core to UK cultural influence abroad, said it had received £40 million in non-aid funding over the next three years, avoiding what it described as a "worst-case scenario" in which up to 40 per cent of its overseas network could have closed.
