HIGHLIGHTS

• Prolonged dry weather has triggered significant drought in northern Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)

• A U.S. Government (USG) preliminary damage assessment team is scheduled to begin assessments of drought-affected areas in the coming days

• To date, USAID has responded with reverse osmosis machines and other pre-positioned relief supplies

16 mai 2013 – Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) a salué les promesses de dons de 3,25 milliards d'euros pour financer le plan d'une relance durable du Mali et l'aider à sortir de la crise.

Media Note, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
May 16, 2013

In the context of the donor conference for Mali taking place in Brussels today, Minister for Development Cooperation Jean-Pascal Labille stated that Belgium would actively support the recovery process in Mali. To this end, Belgium will provide a financial contribution of EUR 17.3 million in 2013 and EUR 14.2 million in 2014.

For Jean-Pascal Labille, this support illustrates our country’s solidarity with the Malian people, who are currently experiencing a very dark time in their country’s history.

Treize chefs d’Etat et cent sept délégations ont participé hier à la conférence des donateurs pour réaffirmer leur soutien au peuple malien et leur appui au Plan pour la relance durable adopté par les autorités maliennes.

La France s’est engagée à verser 280 millions d’euros à titre bilatéral, en plus de sa contribution à titre multilatéral. Nous participerons notamment à hauteur de 20 % à l’aide de l’Union européenne, d’un montant de 520 millions d’euros.

Au total, des promesses d’aide d’un montant de 3,2 milliards d’euros ont été confirmées par les pays participants.

The country’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation has received a $1 million cash injection from Japan, a government official has revealed.

“Despite the natural disasters that have bedevilled Japan in recent years, the country has become our development partner in the EPI interventions. Last year they donated $4, 8 million and this year they have added another $1 million to the pot,” the Ministry of Health EPI Manager, Mary Kamupota, said.

KATHMANDU - The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) together with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and German development agency Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), today inaugurated a new road that connects remote villages of Baitadi district in far-western Nepal, providing communities with better access to markets, health centres, schools and other key facilities.

15 May 2013 – At an international forum held in the German capital of Berlin yesterday, representatives from some 50 countries and organizations, including the United Nations, reaffirmed their long-term commitment to supporting Afghanistan as it undergoes its political and security transitions.