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United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body said today.


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The European Union signed its largest aid deal yet with Mauritius on Thursday, saying the 93 million euro package would bolster the island's economic and social reforms.


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Tags: EU - aid - support - growth - Alessandro Mariani - Mauritius

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Britain's international development department has pledged an additional 20 million pounds ($30 million) to combat Ethiopia's food crisis.


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Britain will give about 90 million dollars (66 million euros) in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help rebuild its war-torn eastern provinces, the British embassy said Tuesday.


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Qatar, which has sponsored peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels, plans to contribute $1 billion to a fund to reconstruct the African country, the Qatari emir said on Tuesday.


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The Japanese government extended the environmental program grant aid - the Project for Introduction of Clean Energy by Solar Electricity Generation System - totaling 660 million JPY to the Republic of Malawi.


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The European Union on Thursday announced a $13 million fund to help thousands of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers, in a bid to revive the southern African country's agriculture sector after years of decline.


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Tags: EU - agriculture - farmers - FOA - UN - Robert Mugabe - Zimbabwe

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Ghana has been noted as the second biggest donor to Haiti after Guyana, based on donor countries' Gross Domestic Product (GDP).


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The UN today announced a further allocation of $20 million from its Peacebuilding Fund to the Central African Republic (CAR) to support security sector reform, economic revitalization and the rule of law in consolidating peace.


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The United Nations has allocated some $100 million to boost the humanitarian response in 14 ongoing but underfunded emergencies, where people are suffering the effects of hunger, malnutrition, disease and conflict.


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A renowned female Senegalese musician has proposed for African musicians to team up to produce a single music track, the proceeds of which will go towards helping earthquake victims in Haiti.


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Senegal's president says he will offer free land and "repatriation" to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti. President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves.


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A top UN official on Thursday revealed the world body's intention to boost its missions in Africa and beyond as a result of an unexpected increase in its budget for this year.


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The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it would give Mauritania at least $100 million in financial aid over the next three years, adding to signs of support from donors who froze aid after a 2008 coup.


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A top UN official on Wednesday praised "great progress" in easing Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, but urged donors to continue supporting the country's recovery from a decade of economic freefall.


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Twenty-five years after releasing a hit single to raise funds for victims of Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof on Wednesday visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country.


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Tags: Bob Geldof - famine - Band Aid - Korem - Ethiopia

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South Korea on Tuesday agreed to double its development aid to Africa in the next three years to help the continent fight poverty and grow sustainably, Seoul officials said.


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Libya signed a 71-million-dollar (47-million-euro) deal with the UN food agency on Friday to improve food security and sustainable development in the North Africa country.


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The global recession is not dampening America's international drive to stop AIDS, the head of the campaign said Wednesday. International aid groups have expressed fears that the economic downturn threatens AIDS funding.


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Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday announced 120 million dollars in grants to help small-scale farmers in Africa and India improve their lives through sustainable agriculture.


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The United States government will donate $2 million to the British demining agency Halo Trust to remove landmines in Maputo, Manica and Tete provinces, the US embassy in Maputo said on Wednesday.


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Tags: US - government - Halo Trust - landmines - Maputo - Manica - Tete - civil war - Mozambique

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