Aid and Assistance

News : Aid and Assistance

The government is seeking donor assistance for the implementation of Phase two evictions of the Mau Forest. (AllAfrica)

THE European Commission is to provide N203 million to the Enugu State Government for the execution of rural water projects in the state. (AllAfrica)

Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is expected to hand over a house to the family of the late S'khumbuzo Mhlongo later today. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (AllAfrica)

In the sprit of Sallah celebration, the Borno State Governor Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has donated three bulls, 10 bags of rice, five jerry cans of vegetable oil and N1,000 to corps members serving in the state for the celebrations. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Rosemary Museminali addressing the Korea-Africa Forum in Seoul. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

THE World Health Organisation has donated a consignment of swine flu vaccines that are expected to arrive in the country next month. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

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 offer long-term solutions which would break these cyclical and chronic crises. (AllAfrica)

The US and Britain have expressed concern over the alleged politicisation of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia ahead of elections and called for immediate investigation. (AllAfrica)

President Kibaki has asked the Bretton Woods institutions to increase their support to Kenya to help fight unemployment among other issues. (AllAfrica)

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. (AllAfrica)

British American Tobacco (BAT-Rwanda) Thursday remitted a cheque of Rwf 4 million as part of the company's contribution to the 'One Dollar' campaign provide support for orphans of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis. (AllAfrica)

RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent. (AllAfrica)

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has set aside R20 million to rebuild houses for the families who were left homeless after a storm hit the Nkwezela area on 6 November. (AllAfrica)

Uganda Telecom last week donated food and scholastic materials to Gulu Primary School for the Blind worth Shs 8 million. (AllAfrica)

George Town Trust recently assisted Methodist Lower Basic School in Janjanbureh,Central River Region (CRR) with funitures and building materials worth forty-two thousand dalasi (42,000) the materials was meant for refurbishment. (AllAfrica)

THE donor community has urged the media in Zambia to be more proactive on reporting on the plight of children if the world and the country are to be safer places for children. (AllAfrica)

Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, today announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa. (AllAfrica)

Twenty five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month, the Ethiopian Government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6.2 million people. (AllAfrica)

The issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According to a USAID official, the current situation shows that inattention to agriculture has consequences for stability and the economic development process worldwide. (AllAfrica)

The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. (AllAfrica)

Thanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries that are largely dependent on foreign aid. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA has received sh17.8b from donors to support efforts geared at deepening democracy ahead of the 2011 elections. (AllAfrica)