Full Coverage: Aid

29.04.2005 More than 100 ministers call for more aid, debt relief, domestic funds to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on water, sanitation and slums at a recent meet organised by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

29.04.2005 The April 19 conference of NEPAD, the partnership of African countries working to improve governance and encourage foreign aid and investment, was poorly attended and did not release key reports as promised. Professor John Stremlau of South Africa's University of Witwatersrand counsels patience, however, noting that several African states are making positive strides on the path to greater accountability.

28.04.2005 Médecins Sans Frontière augmente considérablement ses capacités de prise en charge de la malnutrition sévère au Niger. Le nombre d’enfants malnutris a atteint un niveau anormalement élevé pour cette période de l’année. Cette situation déjà alarmante en janvier se dégrade rapidement. MSF appelle les autres acteurs de l’aide à se mobiliser.

28.04.2005 Under proposals for UN reform, Japan and Germany are strong candidates for permanent seats on the Security Council. Aid promises may be one way to win valuable votes from African countries. Oxfam is unimpressed that poverty is becoming a political football.

27.04.2005 More useful data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act - the value of infrastructure projects in Palestine funded by European and UK taxpayers which end up as rubble thanks to the Israeli military.

27.04.2005 As Robert Mugabe celebrates the 25th anniversary of independence in Zimbabwe, concerns are rising that endorsement of the recent election results by President Mbeki of South Africa may dampen donor support for the entire continent.

26.04.2005 The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), which is a worldwide coalition of NGOs, has launched the Action Week (April 24-30) to remind world leaders of their promise that every child should have an education to escape poverty. The campaign will also petition the G-8 summit which will be held in UK in July.

25.04.2005 L'épidémie de fièvre de Marburg continue de se propager dans la province de Uige en Angola. Le bilan officiel, au 11 avril, est de 203 morts pour 221 cas recensés. Depuis que des tests biologiques réalisés par l'OMS ont confirmé le 22 mars qu'il s'agissait bien de fièvre de Marburg, 114 nouveaux cas ont été identifiés, et 107 patients sont morts.

25.04.2005 Africa Malaria Day's major celebration will take place Monday in the capital of Zambia, where recent projects have provided millions of children with insecticide-treated bednets to protect against the disease. Impressive projects have raised the intensity of the fight against malaria across the continent, says Unicef, refuting an editorial from the Lancet medical journal that the World Health Organizations' campaign against malaria has been ineffective.

25.04.2005 The Knit for Kids project has provided over 250,000 sweaters--crafted by volunteer knitters across the United States--to needy kids around the world. Joan McKeon, the 200,000th sweater knitter, recently visited recipients in an Azerbaijan orphanage.

21.04.2005 Over the next year, the Christian Science Monitor will follow one Indonesian family that is relying on foreign aid to rebuild, and other that's chosen to go it alone. Check out the first pair of reports.

20.04.2005 As part of the international donor package of aid for Sudan announced last week, the European Commission has agreed to contribute 600 million euros. There appears to be no specific conditionality on the behaviour of the Sudanese government in Darfur.

19.04.2005 Depuis 1976, le Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI), un organisme canadien, a affecté plus de 15 millions CAD à une cinquantaine de projets de lutte contre le paludisme, l’une des principales causes de maladie et de décès dans le monde en développement. Ces fonds ont aidé les chercheurs en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique latine à trouver des solutions à des problèmes locaux des plus urgents.

19.04.2005 Redirecting 2 days of global military spending would create the annual funds necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal education. A damning report from the Global Campaign for Education ranks the United States as bottom of a league table which assesses donors for quantity and quality of education aid.

19.04.2005 Participants at the current meeting of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development will be calling for donor countries to double spending on water and sanitation projects and for Africa to be given higher priority.

19.04.2005 The European Commission and the World Bank agreed to an intensified partnership to support Africa's push to accelerate economic growth and make faster progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

18.04.2005 The U.S. may not be interested, but Europe will move ahead nonetheless with a plan to sell bonds on the financial markets to raise money to provide cheap, life-saving medicines to poor countries. The U.S. also opposed a British plan to sell off gold reserves held by the International Monetary Fund to finance debt relief for the world's poorest countries.

18.04.2005 ZimbabweÂ’s recent parliamentary election--considered a fraud by most western governments--has compromised the standing of other African leaders who are trying to convince the international community that Africa is moving towards better governance in return for debt relief, increased aid, and better terms of trade, say political analysts.

15.04.2005 Currently, 104 million children are out of school, and 57 percent of them are girls. Many have never had the chance to go to school and half of those who did will never finish. During Education Action Week, Care USA urges you to contact your representatives in Washington; ask them to double U.S. support for basic education in 2006--from $400 million to $800 million--they say.

14.04.2005 Hard evidence is beginning to emerge that donors have enhausted their interest and funds on the Asian tsunami to the detriment of other crises. Some UN appeals for the neglected emergencies of Africa have raised less than 5% of target.