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President Kufuor Calls for Aid to End Aid Dependency


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Kenya: Reject Conditional Aid, Say Lobbies

Four Kenyan NGOs and a local bishop are among more than 100 civil society organisations that are urging participants of the aid effectiveness conference here to reject foreign aid with imposed conditions.

  Nation
Eritrea: Minister Holds Discussion With Australian Mining Companies And Investors

Mr. Tesfai Gebreselassie, Minister of Energy and Mines, who is currently in Australia on a working visit, held discussion with mining companies and investors in the country on the available mining opportunities and prospects in Eritrea, especially in the mining sector.

  Shabait
Nigeria: Aid - Who Accounts to Whom And On Whose Terms? [opinion]

I have been attending a most inappropriately termed meeting in Accra: 3rd High Level forum on aid effectiveness. It would have been more realistic to call it forum on aid inefectiveness.

  Daily Trust
Congo-Kinshasa: Air Crash At Bukavu

An aircraft under contract to Air Serv International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, en route from Kisangani to Bukavu, failed to land and crashed about 15 kms away from Kavumu airport on 1 September 2008 at about 5:00 pm local time.

  MONUC
Africa: Groups Push Donors to Honour Pledges

Lobbyists have teamed up to push for honouring of donor pledges as a forum aimed to make development aid more effective came to a close here on Friday.

  Nation
Kenya: Team Set Up to Monitor Sugar Imports

The Government has struck at the heart of beneficiaries of cheap sugar imports after setting up a committee to monitor the flow of the commodity into the country from the Comesa region.

  Nation
Kenya: Kalonzo Wife to Give Sh400,000 to Charity

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka's wife has accepted Sh400,000 monthly allowance from the Government - but will donate it to charity.

  Nation
Africa: Governments Greet New Aid Promises Cautiously

As the Accra high-level forum on aid effectiveness drew to a close on 4 September, aid agencies praised ministers from developed and developing 'partner' countries as they signed an agreement to make aid more effective.

  IRIN
Africa: Meet Your Aid Promises, Says UN Official

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged countries to make good on the promises they made this week at a high-level conference in Ghana devoted to making international aid more effective.

  UN News
Nigeria: Govt Accuses Donors Over Transparency

The Federal Government yesterday identified lack of transparency and openness in administering aid and assistance as factors militating against derivation of benefits from about N384 billion disbursed in about one decade, for development projects.

  This Day
Africa: Britain, World Bank Launch Plan for Aid

Britain and the World Bank have launched an initiative to make delivery and management of aid more open and accountable.

  Nation
Africa: Donors and the Poor Agree Aid Agenda

Delegates from both developing and developed countries have adopted the Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent.

  IPS
Angola: Economy Weighing on Voters' Minds

Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands at around 65 percent.

  IPS
Africa: World Bank Lists Conditions For Continent's Growth

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank Managing Director, said yesterday in Accra that the perpetual dependence on aid by African countries would not develop the continent, but only facilitate growth.

  Vanguard
Africa: Action Needed So Aid Works Better for the Poor, Zoellick Says [press release]

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick today outlined steps to address the immediate risks of the global food crisis while also proposing reforms for the international aid system so it can have a greater impact on the lives of poor people.

  World Bank
Africa: Delegates Accuse Donors of 'Pocketing' Aid

In the Aid Effectiveness talks in Accra, Ghana, officials from various African governments are accusing donors of making it difficult for recipients to produce results.

  Nation
Mozambique: Cheap Rail Travel Boosts Cross-Border Trade

Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.

  IRIN
South Africa: Forging a 'Strategic Alliance'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki announced that their countries have a "strategic" relationship, before signing a framework cooperation agreement in Pretoria, which paves the way for future arrangements on technology transfer and concrete deals involving oil and food.

  IPS
Africa: Over-Playing Lack of Capacity Hinders Aid Effectiveness

Governments from around the world and their implementing aid partners were expected on Thursday to conclude a three-day forum in Accra, Ghana intended to ensure that poor countries optimally benefit from donors aid.

  News (Monrovia)
Ghana: Progress Towards Aid Effectiveness Not Fast Enough

World leaders have been told to gear up or miss international commitments and targets for effective aid by 2010.

  Public Agenda
Ghana: UNDP Calls On Donors to Clean Up Their Act

Mr. Olav Kjorven, Director of the Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), on Wednesday called on donor nations and multilateral organizations to clean up their act and desist from the excessive demand for regular detailed reports on the application of aid from recipient countries as a requirement for subsequent aid.

  Public Agenda
Ghana: Country, Switzerland Sign Two Financing Agreements

Ghana and Switzerland on Wednesday signed two financing agreements totalling 13 million dollars to improve energy distribution andpromote good financialgovernance.

  Public Agenda
Ghana: Country, EU Sign 'Trade And Aid' Deal On Legal Timber Exports

Ghana and The European Union on Wednesday signed a groundbreaking trade agreement that would stop imports of illegal timber into Europe from Ghana.

  Public Agenda
Kenya: Authority to Market Country

Kenya Investment Authority is working on a strategy to brand and promote Kenya as a business hub in the region.

  Nation
Rwanda: Local NGO Pledges Us$6 Million for Mayor's Capacity Building

A Local NGO, Intrahealth/Twubakane, has set aside US$6 million for capacity building for Mayors in 12 districts form three provinces for five years.

  New Times

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