U.N. provides &#36;2.5 million to Guinea
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The United Nations has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday the international community has pledged anddisbursed around 500 million US dollars for relief efforts in tsunami-hit
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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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The World Bank said on Wednesday it will lend Peru &#36;5 million to help preserve the country's best-known cultural sites, including Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
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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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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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Global pledges of aid pass $2 billion, but supply snags keep many survivors waiting.
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The United Nations and the African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where 2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
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Cubans hit hard by hurricane Charley will receive &#36;50,000 in U.S. assistance, the State Department said Friday.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $6.5 million loan to prevent further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Uruguay and establish a system for tracking livestock to keep the country free of the virus.
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The United States responded Saturday to Indonesia&#039;s devastating earthquake with an emergency allocation of &#36;2.5 million for assistance to victims.
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The Bush administration has spent more than &#36;65 million in the past two years to aid political organizations in Ukraine, paying to bring opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to meet U.S. leaders and helping to underwrite exit polls indicating he won last month's disputed runoff election.
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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The team raising money for next week's festivities marking President Bush's inauguration has taken in &#36;25.5 million, mostly in donations from corporations, it reported Friday.