During the last decade, Niger has witnessed repeated drought cycles, strong desertification and the highest population growth worldwide. Food insecurity is very high in Niger. It affects 80% of the population and especially in rural areas households are vulnerable to it.

22 January 2013

Jerusalem

In order to provide services to nearly five million Palestine refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, UNRWA relies almost entirely on voluntary contributions from its international partners. The Government of Belgium is one such important partner, supporting the Agency year-after-year to ensure that those the Agency works for receive the services they require and deserve.

By EDMUND KAGIRE The EastAfrican

Posted Saturday, December 8 2012 at 19:03

As the government assured citizens that major programmes would not be affected by donors’ decision to withhold chunks of aid, it was focusing on weaning itself off dependence on them.

The Rwanda government will cut spending in some areas and revise its budget as it comes to terms with shrinking funding after key donors withheld aid over claims the country is supporting M23 rebels in eastern DRC.

The European Union and the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium are joining forces to make this year's third contribution to the Palestinian Authority's quarterly payment of social allowances to poor Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza. The contribution, channelled through PEGASE[1], amounts to €9.8 million, including €9 million from the Government of Belgium and €0.8 million from the European Union.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, 21 August (UNHCR) – After traveling from Afghanistan inside a container where other children died, being apprehended by police on arrival in Belgium and spending a tedious summer sharing a shabby hotel room with other young asylum seekers, 15-year-old Faramaz* is anxiously awaiting the start of school.

Clinton Says Hissène Habré’s “Victims Deserve Justice and Their Day in Court”

(Brussels, June 21, 2012) –A new report from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noting Senegal’s continued failure to bring former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré to justice, vindicates demands that Senegal should swiftly extradite Habré to Belgium to face trial, Human Rights Watch and Chadian victims’ groups said today.

May 5, 2012 - President Hamid Karzai met on Saturday with Mr. Didier Reynders, the deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.

Deputy PM Reynders, leading a delegation to Kabul briefed the President on his visit to troops serving in Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul.

President Karzai thanked Belgium for all the assistance it has made to Afghanistan over the past eleven years and hoped the bilateral cooperation can further be expanded.

The Council of Ministers approved the provision of EUR 2 million in support for the countries of the Sahel region today, Friday 27 April, to help them in their fight against the imminent food crisis. In the words of Minister for Development Cooperation Paul Magnette: “Urgent action must be taken to combat the food insecurity that threatens more than 10 million people (according to UN-OCHA 2012 figures) in the Sahel.

Hundreds of thousands of poor people will go without life-saving medicines and many more children will miss out on school because of the first cuts in global aid since 1997, Oxfam warned today as the OECD published its annual report showing how much donors give to poor countries.

Oxfam said the figures showed the importance of the UK sticking to its commitment to meet the target of giving 0.7 per cent of national income in aid next year. The OECD’s figures show a surprise fall in UK aid of $100m in real terms or 0.8 per cent between 2010-11.