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.
International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
Cen-Sad's Secretary General, Mohamed Almadani Alazhari, met Tuesday with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe in Lome.
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.
ZIMBABWE will receive about US$180 million from the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with the first phase of the grant expected in January next year.
The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
Paul Wade, World Bank Senior Economist and Chair of the Joint Budget Support Framework Task Force explains how the newly agreed Joint Assessment Framework (JAF) works.
THE World Health Organisation has donated a consignment of swine flu vaccines that are expected to arrive in the country next month.
The Australian Embassy through the United Nations Children's Fund has commissioned nine boreholes at the University of Zimbabwe to alleviate the water crisis that has affected the institution for the past two years.
The US and Britain have expressed concern over the alleged politicisation of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia ahead of elections and called for immediate investigation.
Concerns over slow implementation of the power-sharing deal that led to the formation of the unity government is preventing Britain from pouring more aid into the country, the UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mark Canning said last week.
President Kibaki has asked the Bretton Woods institutions to increase their support to Kenya to help fight unemployment among other issues.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), through the World Friends Korea Programme, has donated 25 computers to support an ICT project at Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar.
Donors are demanding that the government checks the increasing HIV/Aids infections, which are expected to hit 200,000 by the end of 2009 if they are to release more funds.
