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  • New Times Rwanda: BAT Donates Rwf 4 Million to 'One Dollar' Campaign

    British American Tobacco (BAT-Rwanda) Thursday remitted a cheque of Rwf 4 million as part of the company's contribution to the 'One Dollar' campaign provide support for orphans of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.

  • New Vision Uganda: U.S. Charities Open Clinic in Kasubi

    RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday.

  • November 20
  • Public Agenda Africa: Africa Needs $31 Billion Annually to Transform Her Infrastructure

    A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent.

  • BuaNews South Africa: KZN Govt to Assist Nkwezela Storm Victims

    The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has set aside R20 million to rebuild houses for the families who were left homeless after a storm hit the Nkwezela area on 6 November.

  • Independent Uganda: UTL Donates to Gulu School for Blind

    Uganda Telecom last week donated food and scholastic materials to Gulu Primary School for the Blind worth Shs 8 million.

  • Daily Observer Gambia: Methodist School Receive Assistance

    George Town Trust recently assisted Methodist Lower Basic School in Janjanbureh,Central River Region (CRR) with funitures and building materials worth forty-two thousand dalasi (42,000) the materials was meant for refurbishment.

  • Times of Zambia Zambia: Donors Prod Media to Be Proactive

    THE donor community has urged the media in Zambia to be more proactive on reporting on the plight of children if the world and the country are to be safer places for children.

  • November 19
  • America.gov Africa: Food Security Now at Center of Global Development Agenda

    The issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According to a USAID official, the current situation shows that inattention to agriculture has consequences for stability and the economic development process worldwide.

  • Vanguard Africa: HIV/Aids - U.S. Increases Funding in Continent

    The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009.

  • UN News East Africa: Spain Doubles Aid for UN Food Operation in Horn of Africa

    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain.

  • Health-e Africa: Consequences of Less Funding for Aids - Living With Aids # 413

    Thanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries that are largely dependent on foreign aid.

  • New Vision Uganda: Sh17 Billion to Support Grassroots Democracy

    UGANDA has received sh17.8b from donors to support efforts geared at deepening democracy ahead of the 2011 elections.

  • WFP East Africa: Spain Doubles Aid to WFP to Help Fight Hunger in Horn of Africa [press release]

    Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, today announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa.

  • Nation Africa: New Approach to Aid Urgently Needed [opinion]

    Twenty five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month, the Ethiopian Government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6.2 million people.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Don't Politicise Food Aid - WFP

    THE World Food Programme has warned agents distributing its food in Zimbabwe to desist from interfering in the country's politics, ordering them to carry out their operations through Government structures.

  • Daily Monitor Ethiopia: UK Grants 4 Billion Birr Aid to Country, Political Arena a Concern - Minister

    The UK Government announced a four billion birr grant aid to Ethiopia to support the provision of basic services, social protection and humanitarian assistance, Minister of State for International Development, Gareth Thomas, said on Tuesday at the premises of the UK Embassy here.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Etung Project - Imoke Commends EU

    Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke has expressed appreciation to the European Union (EU) Micro Projects Programme- MPP-9 for funding 195 projects in Etung Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, saying the gesture has complemented his efforts to transform the rural areas.

  • Mmegi Botswana: Church Must Help Ensure Food Security - BCC Chief

    Christian church leaders have been blamed for being too docile and playing a spectator role in their communities.

  • New Times Rwanda: Lotto Donates Computers Worth Rwf5.4 Million

    Lotto Rwanda under its umbrella New Africa Gaming Solution (NAGS) yesterday donated 15 computers worth Rwf5.4m to Kimihurura Primary School (KPS) in a bid to reach out to all age groups.

  • November 18
  • The Herald Africa: Foreign Aid Not Good for Region [opinion]

    I COME from Africa, a resource-rich continent which is depicted as poor by conventional development statistics -- so as to justify foreign aid. Aid has driven Africans to lose confidence in their abilities and opportunities. It has promoted a culture of dependence -- a culture of relying on other people's help.

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