内容摘要：Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his $200bn (£150bn) fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his $200bn (£150bn) fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years.

Previously the UK has always said the status of Western Sahara was "undetermined" and supported "self-determination" for the people there.Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita welcomed the change in British policy, saying it marked an historic moment in the two nations' 800-year-old relationship.

"It represents a genuine pivot toward a definitive resolution of the dispute," he said.Lammy said the deals signed in Rabat would "directly benefit British business"."Thanks to our work, British companies will be front of the queue to secure contracts to build Moroccan infrastructure, injecting money into our construction industry and ensuring that British businesses score big on football's biggest stage," he said.

After bitter fighting in the 1970s and 80s, the Polisario Front and Morocco agreed various ceasefires in the 1990s but failed to resolve the underlying dispute.The United Nations has deployed peacekeepers to the region since 1991.

However, a long-promised UN-brokered referendum to allow the people of Western Sahara to choose between independence or Moroccan control has never taken place.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his $200bn (£150bn) fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years.There is a new round of recommendations from these bodies every year and they traditionally deliver in the summer.

In September 2024, the government decided to speed up the process by asking for their recommendations by the spring for how much public sector pay should rise in each sector in the 2025-26 financial year.These have not been made public yet, but reports suggest the recommendations are for more than the health and education departments have budgeted for this financial year.

, the health and education departments said they could only afford to increase their pay billsthat the teachers' pay review body has recommended a 4% rise and the NHS body has recommended 3%.