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Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff.
Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it has transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision of more than 50 million long-lasting insecticidal nets in the next few months. Together, this will amount to a 2/3 increase of the number of bed nets in Africa through Global Fund supported programmes.
The United Stated Ambassador to the Gambia Mr. Barry L. Wells on Wednesday 4th November presided over the signing ceremony for projects worth D1 million for thirteen beneficiary groups from all the seven regions in the country.
The embassy of the United States of America, yesterday, signed D 1 million contract with 13 community-initiated projects covering all the regions in the country, under its Special Self Help Project Agreement Programme.
Wavering international support for HIV/AIDS efforts is resulting in funding shortfalls that could wipe out a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment, the international medical and humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has warned.
The government move to offer thousands of vulnerable households a monthly stipend to meet their basic needs is laudable but begs a number of questions that might derail its worthy intentions.
People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of which they are suffering the consequences.
The food subsidy scheme announced on Tuesday could help create demand for farm produce and offer a lifeline to smallholder farmers who form a large pool of food suppliers to the poor.
The World Bank has issued $30 million (Sh40 billion) to Tanzania to help it deal with the imminent food shortage facing 40 districts on the Mainland and the Isles.
The Technical Council of Mozambique's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), estimates that about 260,000 people may suffer from food insecurity in various parts of the country up until the next harvest, in March/April 2010, reports Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
Momodou Sanneh, the disaster focal person, Lower River Region (LRR), said despite various intervention by the donor agencies in assisting affected flood victims in LRR, there are some people who have not yet benefited from the humanitarian gesture.
SOME 17 community organisations helping orphans and vulnerable children have received sh3.3b in grants from the Uganda AIDS Commission Civil Society Fund.
The United Nations has begun to parachute food aid into isolated areas of conflict-ridden southern Sudan with the aim of reaching more than 155,000 people cut off from road access by heavy rainfall, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced today.
Donors have promised US$40 billion in aid to agriculture in developing countries since the Rome "food summit" in 2008, but in some countries the bulk of this aid is uncoordinated, shortsighted and does not support government priorities, says NGO Oxfam.
At least 2,250 tents and other non-eatable goods will be supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the purpose of helping to alleviate the situation of Angolans who came from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 100 visually impaired South Africans will get a new lease on life following a donation of 100 corneas by the Sri Lankan Eye Donation Society on Wednesday.
Muslim Aid, a relief and humanitarian organisation, on Sunday, donated food items and clothes to ten families in the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), who were affected by the recent floods, at a presentation ceremony held at the KMC ground.
THE Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has donated five tonnes of high-yielding upland rice to farmers in Bwanswa, Muhororo and Mpeefu as part of his campaign to improve food security and household incomes in Kibaale district.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is leading UN relief efforts in north-eastern Kenya, where recent torrential rainfall has brought flooding at the same time as much of the rest of the country endures a prolonged drought.
The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.
In the West, scant attention has been paid to news that as many as 23 million people are on the brink of starvation across East Africa. Some media briefly focused on this tragedy, before moving back to the finance crisis and this December's global warming negotiations in Copenhagen.
Millions of shillings meant to resettle internally displaced people were squandered in illegal payments made to imposters, inflated costs of materials and even buying bulls to feast on during peace meetings.
The Japanese government delivered a donation of 30,000 tonnes of wheat to Mozambique on Monday as part of Japan's food aid to African countries.
A representative of United Kingdom (UK)-based charity, Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB) has said their two -week amission in Botswana has been a success.
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