Aid

Rwandans receive free legal aid

Thursday, 02 September 2010 13:57

The Rwanda Legal Aid Project is a four-year initiative managed by the group Lawyers without Borders (Avocats sans Frontieres). The project is designed to give free legal advice from professional Rwandan lawyers to vulnerable Rwandans.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Rwanda Legal Aid Project - free legal aid - Lawyers without Borders - Pascal Dusengeyeru - Rwanda

Burundi gets $10 mln IMF loan

Monday, 26 July 2010 12:04

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had approved a $10 million concessional loan to Burundi after a review of the central African country's economic performance.

(1 Vote)

Tags: aid - IMF - economy - loan - growth - Burundi

Niger: Aid caravan for the east

Friday, 23 July 2010 07:45

An extraordinary crisis calls for an original response: The authorities and aid organizations in Diffa, eastern Niger, are planning to hit the road with a humanitarian caravan to help 35,000 people and weakened cattle next week.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Diffa - drought - caravan - Sylvain Musafiri - Mani Adamou - Niger

WFP scales up food aid to drought-stricken Niger

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:04

The United Nations World Food Programme is nearly doubling aid operations in Niger to feed 8 million people who have lost crops and livestock in a severe drought.

(1 Vote)

Tags: World Food Programme - Josette Sheeran - drought - Niger

Liberia and MCC sign $15 million grant

Wednesday, 07 July 2010 16:42

The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Liberian government on Tuesday signed a $15 million grant in Monrovia to promote equitable access to land, improve girls' primary education enrollment and retention, and trade policy and practices.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Millenium Challenge Corporation - United States - Cassandra Butts - trade policy - land access - land policy - girls' primary education - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - Liberia

UN supports farming projects to alleviate grave food crisis in Niger

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 13:48

The United Nations agriculture agency is implementing nine projects worth nearly $18 million in Niger in support of farmers and pastoralists who are facing an alarming food crisis as a result of the prolonged drought in the Sahel region of West Africa.

(1 Vote)

Tags: United Nations - farmers - pastoralists - drought - Sahel region - UNFAO - GIEWS - Fatouma Seid - UNCERF - Niger

EU donates $29 million to drought-stricken north Africa

Friday, 04 June 2010 11:21

The European Union is giving an additional $29 million to aid countries in north Africa's Sahel region suffering from drought and poor harvests.

(1 Vote)

Tags: European Union - Sahel region - drought - Chad - Niger - Burkina Faso - Nigera - Africa

US funds developing world's farmers to beat hunger, poverty

Friday, 21 May 2010 12:08

US officials Thursday unveiled a plan to fight hunger and promote global security by investing in agriculture in developing countries.

Tags: US - plan - developing - hunger - promote - security - food - USAID - Africa

World Bank restarts aid to Niger after coup

Thursday, 20 May 2010 13:13

The World Bank has restarted aid to Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, after suspending donations in the wake of a military coup in February, the bank said on Wednesday.

(1 Vote)

Tags: coup - World Bank - aid - food - AU - ECOWAS - Niger

Niger junta to provide free food to one million

Monday, 17 May 2010 13:27

Niger's military government has started an unprecedented drive to distribute free food to one million of the nearly 10 million of its population facing hunger due to failed rains last year, it announced on Saturday.

(1 Vote)

Tags: military - food - shortages - hunger - poverty - rains - UN - Niger

Ben Affleck launches aid group for Eastern Congo

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:40

Ben Affleck launched a new initiative Monday to raise money and awareness over atrocities committed against women and children during years of conflict in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(3 Votes)

Tags: Ben Affleck - The Eastern Congo Initiative - Howard G. BUffet - Gimme Shelter - Eastern Congo - Faida Mitifu - Laissez L'Afrique Vivre - Let Africa Live - Democratic Republic of Congo

Darfur donors raise $841 million

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:10

A donor meeting for Darfur held in Cairo raised less than half the targeted $2 billion for development in Sudan's western region. Despite the shortfall, Sudan said it was not disappointed by the results.

Tags: Darfur donor meeting - Abdel Malik al-Naeem - Islamic Development Bank of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference - European Union - Turkey - Quatar - Egypt - Ahmed Aboul Gheit - Sudan

Chad: UN boosts efforts to tackle food insecurity

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:26

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.

(1 Vote)

Tags: United Nations - UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Crop Prospects and Food Situation Report - World Food Programme - UN Central Emergency Response Fund - Chad

EU, Mauritius sign largest aid deal yet

Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:01

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.

(1 Vote)

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

UK provides extra $30 million for Ethiopia

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 14:17

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

(3 Votes)

Tags: Britain - drought - food crisis - United Nations - World Food Program - Ethiopia

Britain to give 90 million dollars in aid to DR.Congo

Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:22

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.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Britain - Thuungane Project - Adoplphe Muzito - Glenys Kinnock - Sud-Kivu - Maniema - Katanga - Nord-Kivu - Democratic Republic of Congo

Qatar says it will donate $1 bln to Sudan fund

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 15:33

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.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Qatar - peace - rebels - aid - donation - Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani - Omar al-Bashir - Sudan

Japan extends green aid to Malawi

Monday, 22 February 2010 13:27

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: Japan - Project for Introduction of Clean Energy by Solar Electricity Generation System - aid - green - fuel - energy - development - Malawi

EU gives Zimbabwe $13 million for smallholder farmers

Friday, 12 February 2010 12:47

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.

(3 Votes)

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

Ghana is second biggest donor to Haiti

Tuesday, 09 February 2010 14:40

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

(5 Votes)

Tags: Haiti - earthquake - aid - Guyana - Data Blog - Guardian - Caring Kids International - Ghana

Central African Republic receives new UN peacebuilding funds

Friday, 05 February 2010 14:27

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.