Aid groups plea to keep funding assistance for Afghanistan
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The foreign aid sector has warned the Morrison government that cutting assistance to Afghanistan could jeopardise progress and threaten stability following the planned withdrawal of the final Australian and Western troops by September.
Australia’s annual foreign aid spending in Afghanistan has plummeted from $197 million in 2011-12 to $53.6 million this financial year. A memorandum of understanding for Australia to spend a minimum of $80 million annually between 2016 and 2020 has lapsed.
Female midwifery students gain an education at a course facilitated by the Australian branch of Save the Children in 2013.
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Australia to supply doses of domestically manufactured COVID-19 vaccines to Melanesian countries, including PNG and Timor-Leste
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AprApril 2021 at 10:48am
The ABC understands up to 10,000 locally manufactured AstraZeneca doses will be shipped out to the region every week, starting from April 19.
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The federal government has promised to start distributing more COVID-19 vaccines to Pacific Island nations later this month as both Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste fight major outbreaks.
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Several Pacific Island nations have also started vaccination programs using doses from the COVAX facility.
Papua New Guinea is due to receive more than 130,000 vaccines from COVAX next week.