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Lanarkshire aid agency continues to support African kids despite pandemic Project Gambia: People Feeding People has been able to keep the school gates and canteens open for the hundreds of impoverished pupils they support and feed daily within three schools in Gambia. (Image: Hamilton Advertiser) Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the...

FG okays Abuja-Kano road reconstruction, jacks up cost by N642.2bn  The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the complete reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway. With the approval, the government changed the scope of work on the highway from the ongoing renovation to complete reconstruction. It therefore increased the project cost from N155bn, earlier approved for renovation, to N797.2bn reconstruction cost. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed th...

Judging from his incomparable achievements as a District Chief Executive (DCE) for the last four (4) years, Hon.

Graphic Online BY: Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 30.5k Shares 705 Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa in the world but cannot be found in the league of 50 top cocoa consuming countries. The country consumes about 0.53 kilograms (KG) of cocoa-sourced products every year and that is a drop in the ocean when compared to countries such as Switzerland, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain where an average of eight KG of the products are consumed every year. When it comes to the golde...

4 min read Nigeria has to act fast to develop a sustainable food system as it faces a population growth that is “handsomely” ahead of its economic growth figures, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Tuesday. Mr Osinbajo said the need to create a food system that works “has never been more urgent and more existential” as the country’s poverty levels has worsened particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. The vice president made these remar...

Over 5000 Independent Monitors in Nigeria, were trained by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, to access implementation of the various National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP).

Vanguard News FG trains over 5,000 to monitor Social Investment programmes  On By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Over 5000 Independent Monitors in Nigeria, were trained by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, to access implementation of the various National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP). Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and Social Development,  said in Kaduna on Tuesday during the training of 198 of the...

Russian Federation and WFP provide support to families of most vulnerable schoolchildren in Tajikistan Format DUSHANBE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun delivering fortified wheat flour and vegetable oil to the families of vulnerable schoolchildren in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan, supported by USD 1 million from the Russian Federation. The 1,200 tons of wheat flour and 50 tons of vegetable oil were purchased will meet the needs of around 22,000 households. Families...

Information update on Democratic Republic of Congo security incident Format ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has the following updates on the facts surrounding the tragic security incident in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on 22 February: The security incident involved a group of seven people travelling in two World Food Programme (WFP) vehicles on the road from Goma to Rutshuru in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo where they were planning to visit...

WFP Yemen Country Brief, January 2021 Format 66,000 mt of general food assistance US$11.6 million cash-based transfers US$10.6 million commodity vouchers US$519 million six-month net funding requirements (February – July 2021) Operational Updates Under the January cycle, WFP targeted 8.1 million people with general food assistance. Of these, 5.3 million people were targeted with in-kind food assistance, around 1.6 million people with food vouchers and over 1.1 million people with cash assista...