Aid

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.

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.

(2 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).

(3 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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: United Nations - Peacebuilding Fund - UNHCR - UNICEF - UNFAO - UNESCO - Internally displaced persons - Judy Cheng-Hopkins - Bisrat Aklilu - Sahle-Work Zewde - Central African Republic

$100 million for 14 neglected humanitarian crises

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 13:33

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: UN - humanitarian - emergencies - CERF - Ethiopia - Democratic Republic of Congo - Kenya - Chad - Niger - Eritrea - Guinea - Africa

African musicians poised to aid Haiti

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 13:24

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.

(3 Votes)

Tags: female - singer - musicians - music - Haiti - earthquake - Coumba Gawlo Seck - concert - Senegal

Senegal offers land to Haitians

Monday, 18 January 2010 12:32

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.

(9 Votes)

Tags: Haiti - repatriation - earthquake - Abdoulaye Wade - Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye - offer - aid - support - Senegal

UN budget boost for Africa missions

Monday, 11 January 2010 12:26

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: UN - funding - boost - mission - budget - General Assembly - Secretary General - Ban Ki-Moon - Angola - Kenya

IMF announces 3-yr, $100 mln aid deal for Mauritania

Friday, 18 December 2009 11:08

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.

(1 Vote)

Tags: IMF - financial aid - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz - Ousmane Kane - Boileau Loko - Mauritania

‘Great progress' in Zimbabwe: UN official

Thursday, 10 December 2009 12:57

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: UN - Catherine Bragg - Morgan Tsvangirai - Robert Mugabe - aid - Zimbabwe

Geldof in Ethiopia to mark 25 years since famine

Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:20

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.

(1 Vote)

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

South Korea agrees to double aid to Africa

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:32

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.

(4 Votes)

Tags: South Korea - aid - poverty - sustainable - development - African Union - Chung Un-Chan - Africa

Libya inks 71-million-dollar deal with UN food agency

Monday, 23 November 2009 11:45

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.

(1 Vote)

Tags: food security - sustainable development - Abu Bakr al-Mabruk al-Mansuri - Jacques Diouf - UN Food And Agriculture Organization - pest control - animal vaccinations - coastal pollution - Libya

US Aids program undaunted by recession, head says

Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:32

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: global recession - US - PEPFAR - Aids - funding - Eric Goosby - Barack Obama - Hillary Rodham Clinton - South Africa - Africa

Bill Gates pledges 120 million to boost African farmers

Friday, 16 October 2009 13:44

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.

(8 Votes)

Tags: Bill Gates - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - sustainable agriculture - World Food day - disease resistant wheat - community knowledge workers networks - Africa

U.S. Government to donate $2m to demining in Mozambique

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 12:16

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.