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Views: Visits 22 The World Bank, yesterday, enhanced Nigeria’s foreign exchange liquidity position with the approval of the Covid-19  Budget Support credit promised during the Spring Meetings in America earlier in the year.   The credit approval is believed would help address the current forex squeeze and shore up the local currency value, which has for sometime been under serious  pressure due to poor foreign exchange earnings by Nigeria arising from failing crude oil receipts.    The $1.5 billion loan approval was announced in a statement by World Bank on Tuesday is a five-y...

Of the u.s., perhaps -- because "the washington post" is reporting the u.s., at least the white house is considering whether to stop next month's deployment or shipment of u.s.-made apache helicopters s. that leverage if the u.s. were to say we're no longer going to send you the helicopters or the kind of supplies that you need to do repairs on the existing apaches that you have? >> that is leverage. we have already said we'll hold off on the f-16s, four of them. we're canceling the military exercises which are symbolic of a partnership. the egyptian military does recognize that it's -- there ...

Weapons. president obama arrived in amman to a red carpet welcome and immediately had a lengthy meeting with the jordanian leader. >> today i'm announcing that my administration will work with congress to provide jordan with an additional $200 million in budget support this year as it cares for syrian refugees and jordanian communities affected by this crisis. >> before heading to jordan, the president spent a final morning in israel touring some of jerusalem's powerful cultural landmarks. at the grave of itzhak rabin. president obama also visited the holocaust memorial joining president peres...

Of it goes through governments and the governments have their own objectives in mind and a lot of it's simply moving money into areas where they want to see support. it's budget support. we're basically supporting the budgets of many third world countries, through the u.n. development programs. >> greta: i've seen a lot of u.n. workers on the ground helping ai know that food comes out of-- they drop it out of planes and i know a lot that's done, but what disturbs me if they can't track it. >> there's a difference between humanitarian assistance and disasters in war time and natural disasters o...

Mission, is that going to be okay with the afghans? or will they want that to be but tresed by some sort of training or budget support? at this point, the afghan military is going to cost more money than the country has to spend. so i think very high on karzai's agenda is continuation of security assistance in the form of budget support. >> and let's look at the possible scenario of leaving afghanistan completely after 2014. what would we be leaving behind? >> we would be leaving behind a very dicey proposition. a country whose governance is clearly about as weak as we've seen it. a country th...