Aid and Assistance

News : Aid and Assistance

Mozambique's Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia, told reporters ON Wednesday that the Mozambican government has received no formal notification from Sweden that it intends to reduce Swedish support to the Mozambican budget. (AllAfrica)

The Italian government has just disbursed a million euros (about 1.6 million US dollars) to support the Mozambican government in the emergency caused by the flooding in the Zambezi Valley and elsewhere in central and northern Mozambique, and in the fight against cholera. (AllAfrica)

AN investigation into seven leading international aid agencies handling multi-billion dollar humanitarian missions worldwide has revealed massive corruption in their dealings. (AllAfrica)

Two UN agencies, World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a joint private mission project for the next four years with Rwanda Flora, a private organic firm, to jointly help improve household nutrition. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is helping poor farmers to boost their agricultural production in Swaziland, one of many countries suffering as a result of the global food crisis. (AllAfrica)

In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros. (AllAfrica)

The Limpopo Housing Department, in partnership with sponsors from the private sector, have answered the prayers of three orphaned teenagers from Giyani - they've helped to provide them with a house. (AllAfrica)

As one of her final duties before leaving the country on Saturday to take up a post at the foreign ministry of her country, the Finnish Chargé d'Affaires this week for the last time handed over some funds 'an amount of N$3,6 million' to eight local educational and social society organizations. (AllAfrica)

Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Kabir Mohammed, yesterday, handed over 13 vehicles to the management of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun-Warri in Delta State to facilitate its operations. (AllAfrica)

Martti Ahtisaari Primary School is one of the schools in Katutura yearly struggling with parents that cannot afford the children's school fees due to the worsening economic situation in the country. (AllAfrica)

Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) yesterday donated Sh1.5 million to the Tanzania Sports Writers Association (Taswa) football team. (AllAfrica)

THE American embassy has given Ndejje University books on development issue. (AllAfrica)

The South African Government has donated 160 elephants to Lusenga Plains National Park in Zambia's Kawambwa Disrict. (AllAfrica)

The First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe yesterday urged privileged Zimbabweans to look after orphans because they needed all the help they can get from people in their communities. (AllAfrica)

The Rotary Club of Kigali, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Ravensburg-Weingarten in Germany, Monday donated orthopaedic materials worth $20,000 to the Jaipur Limb Project in Kanombe orthopaedic workshop. (AllAfrica)

Kenyans are part of 14.6 million people in need of emergency food aid in the Horn of Africa. (AllAfrica)

The urban poor in the Horn of Africa are the new face of hunger in a region where up to 14.6 million people now require humanitarian assistance due to poor rains, high food and fuel prices, conflict, animal disease, inflation and poverty. (AllAfrica)

The Sudanese Government today signed an agreement with United Nations agencies operating in the country on a four-year aid plan covering peacebuilding, governance and the rule of law, employment, education and health care as well as other services. (AllAfrica)

Impoverished victims of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and former rebels being reintegrated into the community in northern Uganda need urgent support as the region recovers from more than two decades of conflict, an official of the European Union (EU) has said. (AllAfrica)

Drought, conflict, hyperinflation, high food and fuel prices, the weakness of the Somali shilling and a succession of poor harvests have increased the number of people needing food and other assistance to 2.6 million - up 40 percent from January. (AllAfrica)

The medical specialist of the Centre for Disease Control was here for the 4th African Rotavirus Symposium. He elaborates on this little-known pathogen that claims half a million lives yearly and the advances in fighting preventable diseases. (AllAfrica)

The African Union is now turning to the Diaspora in a bid to boost its development capacity. (AllAfrica)

A teaching material donation of N$58 000 is to be handed over by the Windhoek Rotary Club to the Marti Ahtisaari Primary School in Katutura this morning. (AllAfrica)

The outgoing Spanish ambassador Javier Vallaure, on Tuesday in Luanda reaffirmed his country's willingness in continuing to support Angola in its process of reconstruction and development, whenever and wherever the local authorities need collaboration. (AllAfrica)

CBZ Holdings yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to the development of domestic football when they injected US$200 000 for the 2008 edition of the CBZ FA Cup. (AllAfrica)

On July 27, 2007, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar promised that the education sector would be one of the sectors to receive the utmost attention of his administration. (AllAfrica)

The European Commission has created a billion Euro emergency fund to help developing countries condense the rising and hard-hitting high food prices. (AllAfrica)

Unity Bank Plc has donated an 18-seater bus to the Nigerian Film Corporation. (AllAfrica)

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Africa 's global bank, has donated five security vehicles and other communication gadgets worth several millions of naira to the Imo State Government, in an effort geared towards safeguarding the lives and property of the residents and corporate investments in the state. (AllAfrica)

A COMMUNITY conflict resolution and peace building project has been launched in Gulu district. The 18-month project codenamed 'Healing communities, restoring hope' is funded by the European Union in conjunction with Save the Children in Uganda. (AllAfrica)

MANY farmers have become self-reliant and their productivity has increased, thanks to the Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Programme (APEP). (AllAfrica)