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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UGANDA has received sh17.8b from donors to support efforts geared at deepening democracy ahead of the 2011 elections.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Christian church leaders have been blamed for being too docile and playing a spectator role in their communities.
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.
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.
The UK based pressure group, Zimbabwe Vigil, has sent a petition to the European Union urging the grouping to suspend aid to all SADC states for 'blindly' supporting Robert Mugabe.
The President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir through his African youth initiative called 'Al-Bashir 01'has equipped computer labs of five government schools.
The World Food Programme (WFO) recently provided humanitarian assistance to the disaster victims in the North Bank Region.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (COICA) plans to increase the quality and quantity of its development assistance programs in Ethiopia.
Less than 24 hours, heads of state and government will reach a consensus on how to stamp out the ugly world monster-hunger-when they converge for the World Summit on Food Security under the directive of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations .
Health activists Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed last week that the global recession threatens Aids funding, putting millions of lives in Africa at risk.
NASANA Town Council is collaborating with Civil Society Organisation, a local NGO, to establish a sh40m HIV/AIDS centre.
A total of 125 families in Orum, Olilim, Omoro and Abako sub-counties have received agricultural inputs and improved seeds worth sh129m as a resettlement package by the Rotary Club.
THE US government has tripled its funding towards family planning and reproductive health activities in Uganda to $15m (over sh28b) this year.
Humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of people in eastern Chad is under threat from banditry, which has led several aid agencies to temporarily halt their operations in the face of attacks, the United Nations relief wing reported today.
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