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Rwanda has made remarkable progress in implementing its national development strategy - the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (EDPRS) in the first six months of this year, a cross section of development partners have said.
Some 20,000 people wounded in Sierra Leone's war are receiving micro-grants as part of efforts to rebuild lives and livelihoods in the still fragile country.
Six weeks after the deadly military crackdown on civilians in Guinea, families are still searching for loved ones, the wounded continue to need medical care and aid agencies are assisting state health workers cope with the aftermath, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Guinea.
At least 83,000 Somali children and women benefited from the Child Health Days Campaign carried out with United Nations support in the Afgooye corridor, which hosts displaced people who fled their homes owing to the violence in the capital, Mogadishu.
Over 1.57 million people in 63 districts in 15 regions need free and subsidized food from the government beginning this November, revealed by the September 2009 Rapid Vulnerability Assessment.
Cen-Sad's Secretary General, Mohamed Almadani Alazhari, met Tuesday with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe in Lome.
Japan on Tuesday donated irrigation equipment and other items worth US$80 000 to co-operatives in Zvishavane with the aim of improving household food security.
The Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary, draws thousands of Americans who want to work abroad and under the new administration, it is looking at its areas of focus and how best to continue implementing its programs most ...
Federal government yesterday received 100 million Pounds (about N26 billion) from the Department For International Development (DFID) for the Enhancing Nigeria Response (ENR) to HIV/AIDS programme for a six-year period.
Around 16,000 Somalis have been forced from their homes by severe flooding in the south of the strife-torn country, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today, while underscoring that a funding shortfall is hampering relief efforts.
Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released today.
The head of the United Nations food agency today welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in feeding people on the continent.
Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn't sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
"After almost a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment we have seen substantial improvements, both for patients and public health. But recent funding cuts mean doctors and nurses are being forced to turn HIV patients away from clinics as if we were back in the 1990s before treatment was available" - Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign.
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF), in conjunction with the United States Embassy in Mauritania, hosted a ceremony to launch nearly $850,000 in development assistance to grassroots groups in Mauritania. Representatives from each group receiving USADF funds were in attendance.
I applaud the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the important role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in meeting the food needs of Africa’s people.
Government has distributed between 400 and 600 tons of food to more than 100 000 people in need of emergency food relief since May, says Minister of Public Works Geoff Doidge.
"Overall, we call for a doubling of U.S. aid to global health from nearly $8 billion a year to $16 billion by 2011. A six-year scale up of a sufficiently resourced initiative would total $95 billion. While this reflects higher levels than the President's original announcement, 40% of this increase is for the total of $14 billion that must be invested in health workforce - which we believe could ...
DANIEL Nzelu Foundation at the weekend made a donation of N2 million to four orphanage homes in Abuja, just as the foundation has called on the federal government and the private sector to initiate steps that would help support the less privileged people.
It is a compassionate act that continues to baffle both friend and foe. Few in his shoes could imagine, let alone attempt, surrendering their valued assets to the less fortunate in society.
United Nations is appealing for Sh210 million (US$2.8 million) to provide essential supplies to refugees and respond to possible disease outbreaks in camps threatened by floods in Kenya.
Africa will receive $10 billion in concessional loans from China over the next three years.
It happens once a year in Norway. The whole country is consumed by it. This time, the development aid fundraising had a renewed sense of purpose, determination and optimism.
THE Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years.
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.
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