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Powell Announces U.S. Aid to Sudan and Uganda
(NAIROBI, Kenya) During a four-nation tour of Africa, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the United States would send an additional 40,000 tons of food to Sudan to help the country stave off famine.
Since 1983 the country has been involved in a bitter civil war that has already claimed the lives of 2 million people. War and the driest season in recent memory for some regions have left many people on the verge of starvation.
According to the United Nations World Food Programme, as many as 420,000 people in the northern province alone are at risk from droughtùsome may only survive until fall.
Powell encouraged the fighting groups to agree upon a ceasefire, especially in humanitarian locations, so that food can reach the people. Food will be distributed to both factions equally. Powell's last stop, after South Africa and Mali, was Uganda. The Secretary visited an AIDS clinic and announced that $50 million in aid will be given to the country over the next 5 years to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS, according to CNN.
"There is no war on the face of the Earth right now that is more serious, more grave than the one in sub-Saharan Africa," Powell said.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...6B14A7C20.html
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US-UK pledge more aid for Sudan
Friday 31 October 2003, 3:24 Makka Time, 0:24 GMT
The United States has pledged more aid for Sudan, provided the fractious country clinches the peace deal aimed at ending its civil war.
"We cannot begin reconstruction without peace," Andrew Natsios, head of the US Agency for International Development told a news conference in Nairobi in neighbouring Kenya on Thursday.
He said Washington planned a 25% increase in aid for next year.
"The US government would increase aid to Sudan to $ 200 million in 2004 from $ 160 million this year and would open a field office based in Nairobi," Natsios said.
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http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/we....Rvoi_DNE.html
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Bush administration opposes restricting aid to Nigeria over Taylor
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush's administration opposes lawmakers' efforts to restrict aid to Nigeria if it doesn't turn over former Liberian president Charles Taylor to a UN-backed war crimes tribunal, the State Department said Friday.
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You know, just because its not a story on commondreams, truthout, or CNN doesn’t mean the US isn’t doing just what you think. Nigeria is an excellent example of this failing as well. Clinton did his best to give aid, with the understanding that Nigeria would reform some policies, even giving them waivers when they didn’t meet the goals, but instead they went the other way with it and now we get single mothers being stoned. Why do you assume the worst of the Bush administration without doing a little footwork on your own first?