The United Nations (UN) has increased its grant to Ghana by 25 per cent to implement reforms to recover from the global challenges and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. “Through a proposed new Cooperation Framework, once signed, the UN in Ghana will commit at least $500m to support Ghana’s development priorities between 2023 and 2025,” […]
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Foundation has donated an unspecified amount to charities working in Nigeria to ‘help provide relief following devastating flooding’ that has ravaged parts of Nigeria. This is coming after the Duchess Sussex, 41, revealed she is 43 percent Nigerian after doing a genealogy test ‘a couple years ago’. She said this […]
Coastline Exploration Limited (“Coastline”), the upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, is donating $1.4m in food aid to 6,000 households in Somalia to help with the famine relief effort. The food will be donated across three areas, Barawe in South West, Hobyo in Galmudug, and Kismayo in Jubaland, with 2,000 households in […]
Harare — Water supplies are under increasing strain all around the world. As populations grow and cities expand, fresh water sources are depleted or contaminated. This is the case in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, where the availability of clean water has steadily decreased over the years and this long unresolved water crisis is a ticking time […]
The Nigerian Navy says it is providing security and ferrying stranded commutters across the flooded East-West Road linking Port Harcourt, Rivers and Yenagoa in Bayelsa. Sub-Lieutenant Tochukwu Okeke, the Base Information Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) SOROH, a unit of Central Naval Command, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on […]
The Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) has announced a $100,000 package to support school children to learn more about sanitation and the need to protect the environment. The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, who made the announcement, indicated that Zoomlion […]
USAID says it has put modalities in place to guard against food monopoly by political parties in rural areas ahead of the 2023 general elections. The World Food Programme (WFP) Thursday received US$36 million worth of food aid from USAID which will be distributed to rural areas that are facing food shortages. USAID director for […]
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has availed US$36.7 million through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to eight food insecure districts in Zimbabwe beginning this October to March next year. Recently, the government extended its begging bowl to humanitarian organisations as close to four million people from Zimbabwe’s rural population will […]
Juba And Tonj, South Sudan — ‘Politicians have divided people, but the time will come when people will realise that we are not benefiting.’ It has been just over four years since South Sudan’s main warring parties signed a peace agreement that was supposed to end a five-year civil war that killed at least 400,000 […]
Since 2018, Burkina Faso has been plagued by violent clashes in the Sahel, which have caused the internal displacement of over 1.5 million people, and has become the epicentre of multiple humanitarian crises. For months, our teams in the field have been drawing attention to the fast-deteriorating humanitarian situation, particularly in the centre north of […]
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Liberia: UNFPA Donates to CMS
… ..-US$50k Items; As Kamugisha Praises GOL For Transparency MONROVIA-The United National Population Fund (UNFPA), formally the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has presented to the Central Medicines Stores (CMS) in Upper Caldwell Township, Montserrado County, a consignment of Reproductive Health Kits valued at 50 thousand United States Dollars. The Central Medicines Store […]
Kokoyah District — Esther Borbor’s 36-year dream to live in a house with a proper cemented roof came true Saturday, October 7. “I plan to move in with my family tomorrow itself,” she says, gleaming with happiness. Mrs. Borbor, a resident of Sayewheh Town, was one of three persons who received a house each from […]
South Africa must incorporate humanitarian clauses in counter-terrorism legislation to protect victims of war. In July 2022, South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele introduced a draft bill to update the country’s existing counter-terrorism law – the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act 33 of 2004. It aims partly to ensure that […]
Addis Abeba — Germany and France offered their support to transport and distribute 50,000 tons of wheat donated by Ukraine for Ethiopia and Somalia, two of the countries in the Horn of Africa severely affected by the ongoing drought. According to a statement sent to Addis Standard, the two countries pledged their support which amounts […]
The presidential drought envoy Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame arrived in London on Sunday night. He held a meeting with officials of the UK Government and the Somali community in the UK to galvanize support for the people affected by the drought in Somalia. The UK is a long-standing supporter of Somalia and one of the top […]
The United Nations humanitarian office on Somalia says the country is still teetering on the edge of famine. Ian Ridley, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in Somalia says there are almost eight million people in need of assistance and over one million people who have been internally […]
The United States has said it agreed to pay an additional $86.7 million increase in USAID support to Somalia following a deal on Wednesday. The aid package is aimed at developing the infrastructure and vital programs that advance the country’s journey to economic revival. Dr Elmi M. Nur, Somalia’s minister of finance and planning minister […]
Washington, DC — The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera joined nearly 100 leaders from the U.S. and Malawi today to sign the Malawi Transport and Land Compact — a $350 million infrastructure grant between the U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Malawi. MCC […]