This Day, an African website on global affairs, reports new comments from Muhammad Yunus about the role of international financing of MFIs. Yunus was speaking at a conference in Lagos, and reiterated his point from last month’s conference in Mexico City that microfinance should focus on the extremely poor. He also went a step further in calling for greater local funding for microfinance. Yunus’ remarks are bound to make some European and US funders a little nervous. For the complete article: thisdayonline.com