MS ALBRIGHT: Good morning. Thank you all so much for joining us today to celebrate a remarkable moment in the longstanding partnership between the United States and the Republic of Malawi. My name is Alice, and I am the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. I’d like to thank you so much, Secretary Blinken, for […]
Addis Abeba — Four initiatives have been approved on 15 September by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Italian Cooperation for a total of 9 million euros to respond to “Ethiopia’s most urgent needs.” To respond to the problem of drought, which has caused acute food insecurity for 50 million people in the Horn […]
The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies said on Friday. “As we speak today, 650,000 kids are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. If not treated, half of them will die,” said UN Children’s Fund […]
A total of 14 Chest Freezers and an Industrial Junker machine was yesterday distributed to 15 People with Disabilities (PWDs) at the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly (AEMA) in Accra. The items were aimed at supporting PWDs to venture into entrepreneurial skills in order to get them off the streets with the view of dealing with […]
Addis Abeba — Ukraine’s Cabinet Ministry announced that Ukraine will reimburse Ethiopia and Somalia for $11.4 million worth of wheat. In his speech at the General Debate of the 77th session of the UN, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated that despite all the difficulties caused by the war, Ukraine decided to provide humanitarian aid […]
Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson has described the Standard Bearer of the Alternative National Congress, as a good humanitarian, referencing his donation of U$50, 000.00 towards the PYJ Polytechnic University in Nimba. Senator Johnson said the financial contributions by Mr. Cummings, now Standard Bearer of the Collaborating Political Parties were made timely in separate […]
United States Agency for International Development [USAID] announced it is providing an additional $700 million in aid to Somalia to help mitigate the drought crisis. The United States agency said that the drought in Somalia has reached its worst point and needs urgent support to save the lives of millions at risk of famine. As […]
Monrovia — Smiles could not cease from the faces of residents of Montserrado County District #14, most especially women, as they were given school materials for their children by Representative aspirant Kerkula Muka Kamara. School materials ranging from book bags, copybooks, pens, pencils, and other equipment were given to parents to ease their burden. Lucy […]
Talk of a cessation of hostilities in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is no green light for international relief operations to resume, United Nations (UN) humanitarians said on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of people have reportedly been displaced in parts of Tigray, Afar and Amhara since hostilities resumed three weeks ago. Humanitarian convoys into Tigray and […]
New York — “Sudan has seen new political developments but also a continued deterioration of the socio-economic situation” Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative for Sudan, and head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) told the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday. Perthes also shared his concerns over the […]
Geneva — The number of Somalia’s youngest children – those aged under five – expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition has leapt from nearly 400,000 to more than half a million, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) warns. James Elder, a Unicef spokesperson, said at a UN news conference in Geneva on Tuesday that the […]
The Tano North Municipal Assembly (TNMA) last Friday distributed assorted items valued at GH¢83,970 to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) at Duayaw -Nkwanta in the Ahafo Region. In all, 29 beneficiaries were presented with building materials, fufu pounding machines, deep-freezers with chests, mushroom business equipment, earthenware business materials, farm inputs. The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Ernest […]
The leaders of two dozen African countries Friday urged wealthier nations to uphold their aid pledges so the continent can tackle climate change impacts for which it shares little blame. They made the call after African leaders on Monday lashed out at industrialised nations for failing to show up at the Global Center for Adaption […]
Vice President Badara A. Joof on Tuesday, 6 September received at his office the management of Trust Bank Gambia Ltd. headed by Managing Director Njilan Senghore. The bank presented to the Vice President a cheque for one million dalasis as part of their Social Corporate Responsibility (SCR) to complement government’s disaster relief efforts. The amount […]
U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia Sharon L. Cromer announced that U.S. Embassy Banjul will donate $250,000 in humanitarian assistance to The Red Cross to assist victims of the recent floods in The Gambia. “The United States provides this humanitarian aid to help those affected by the recent floods which have caused substantial suffering to the […]
The IPC Famine Review Committee released their projection that, in the absence of an urgent increase in humanitarian assistance, famine is expected to occur in Buur Hakaba and Baidoa districts of southern Somalia this year between October and December. The United States is gravely concerned by this stark forecast and by the outsized scale of […]
Nearly one in 10 people in Burkina Faso have been displaced by conflict. Most worryingly, the rate of severe food insecurity has nearly doubled compared to last year, with over 600,000 people in emergency hunger levels during this lean season, warns 28 international aid organisations operating in the country. An urgent increase in funding for […]
The 1981 year group of the Odorgonno Senior High School in Accra yesterday donated 40 adjustable chairs and tables to their alma-mater. It also presented a laptop to facilitate the administrative work of the school. John Gerald Essel, spokesperson of the group, presenting the items said after over 40 years of leaving school, the onus […]