Donors Pledge &#36;5.1 Billion to Indonesia
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Indonesia's main donors pledged on Thursday to give &#36;5.1 billion in aid this year, far more than Jakarta expected, including &#36;1.7 billion to help rebuild northern Sumatra, where 166,000 people died in last month's tsunami.
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The international community has pledged more than &#36;250 million in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami that devastated coastlines from south Asia to east Africa, with planeloads of supplies leaving Britain and France on Wednesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan will visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as the  world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for tsunami-hit areas  in South Asia, U.N. officials said Saturday.
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Australia pledges US$3.5m to help police catch those behind the bombing of its embassy in Indonesia.
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The International Monetary Fund offers up to $1bn in financial help to affected nations ahead of a donors' meeting in Jakarta.
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TOKYO  -Japan pledged up to &#36;500 million US in grant aid for tsunami disaster relief on Saturday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced, making the country the largest single donor to victims of the catastrophe.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Wednesday pledged &#36;765 million over five years to Indonesian tsunami reconstruction and development.
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SEATTLE - The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $3 million to provide aid to South Asian countries devastated by an earthquake and tsunamis.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stepped up the German government's pledge of financial aid to tsunami victims to $674 million (U.S.) today as European nations moved to step up help to the devastated region.
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The U.S. is giving civic and economic projects in Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, and on the West Bank &#36;18.5 million in contributions, the State Department announced Friday.
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Governments and registered aid organizations have so far pledged more than &#36;1.5 billion to aid victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the World Bank and the Asian Bank of Development have pledged more than &#36;500 million, bringing the total for relief and reconstruction aid to more than &#36;2 billion, according to the United Nations. A look at major government pledges:
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BRUSSELS, Jan 6 (IPS) - As donations for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster  continue to rise, development experts are hoping that the  generosity shown by governments and citizens will mark a ânew  beginningâ in the fight against poverty.
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Hungry refugees along Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged coasts complained of slow aid delivery Saturday, while world pledges for the massive relief efforts shot up to about &#36;2 billion, a quarter of it from Japan, which boosted its contribution to make it the single largest country donor.
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Major League Baseball and the players association will donate &#36;1 million to the Indian Ocean tsunami relief efforts, commissioner Bud Selig said on Friday.
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One-upping the United States, France nearly doubled its aid pledge for tsunami victims to &#36;57 million Thursday and briefly claimed the role as leading donor nation, following barbs from Washington about French generosity.
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The United States will provide $350  million in aid for victims of southern Asia's devastating  tsunami, a government official said on Friday.
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LONDON -- The US government is contributing $35 million of the half-billion dollars that the world's developed nations are donating to the tsunami relief effort, and many Americans believe -- as President Bush put it earlier this week -- that their country is being its typical ''generous, kindhearted" self.