IOL: "Namibia will be one of the few African countries to receive funding from the new United States development aid program, the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).Other African countries chosen are Burkina Faso, Ghana, Lesotho and the Gambia. There are only 23 countries eligible to receive MCA funding.The director general of the National Planning Commission (NPC), Helmut Angula, said the funding proposals were expected to be completed soon.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) was established by US President George Bush in 2004 to work in partnership with developing countries to reduce poverty and encourage sustainable economic growth.It is a new approach to development assistance that is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance and sound political, economic, and social policies that promote poverty reduction through economic growth."
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Namibia: Nujoma Pooh-Poohs UN Claims
allAfrica.com: "A member of the recently formed Committee on the [Welfare of] Ex-combatants, Alex Kamwi, has claimed that a UN official, Nicholas Bwakira, promised combatants demobilisation packages of US$80 000 each during a meeting in Luanda, Angola, in July 1989.
On Saturday, Nujoma said "hallucinations" about the involvement of the UN in the affairs of Plan should be rejected and condemned with the contempt they deserved.
He said that the Swapo Party Government would continue to monitor and review the socio-economic conditions of those who participated in the liberation struggle with a view to improving their living standards."
On Saturday, Nujoma said "hallucinations" about the involvement of the UN in the affairs of Plan should be rejected and condemned with the contempt they deserved.
He said that the Swapo Party Government would continue to monitor and review the socio-economic conditions of those who participated in the liberation struggle with a view to improving their living standards."
Lack of Emergency Medical Care 'Deadly', Warn Uis Residents
allAfrica.com: "The death of three-year-old Jonald Awarab on Wednesday could have been averted if an ambulance they had been waiting for since 08h00 had arrived sooner than 15h00, claimed Brand.
The boy injured his arm on Tuesday when he fell while playing on an old car wreck.
He was discharged the same day from the Uis clinic, where he was treated.
Complications apparently set in and when Awarab was taken back to the clinic the next morning, he was in a coma.
An ambulance was called to take the boy to the hospital at Omaruru, but only arrived at 15h00, half an hour after the child had died.
According to Brand, the explanation for the delay given by Dr F Chulu, the Acting Principal Medical Officer in the Omaruru health district, was that one of the region's two roadworthy ambulances was at Swakopmund for a routine service and the other vehicle had taken a number of patients from Usakos to see a specialist in Windhoek."
The boy injured his arm on Tuesday when he fell while playing on an old car wreck.
He was discharged the same day from the Uis clinic, where he was treated.
Complications apparently set in and when Awarab was taken back to the clinic the next morning, he was in a coma.
An ambulance was called to take the boy to the hospital at Omaruru, but only arrived at 15h00, half an hour after the child had died.
According to Brand, the explanation for the delay given by Dr F Chulu, the Acting Principal Medical Officer in the Omaruru health district, was that one of the region's two roadworthy ambulances was at Swakopmund for a routine service and the other vehicle had taken a number of patients from Usakos to see a specialist in Windhoek."
Namibia: Namibia 'Won't Be Dismembered'
allAfrica.com: "History will judge harshly anyone who attempts to secede any part of Namibia and thus compromise the country's sovereignty, President Hifikepunye Pohamba warned on Saturday.
Addressing the official Heroes' Day commemoration at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Region, Pohamba said Namibia had vowed not to go back to the ruthless apartheid era which ruled the country through segregation and division, and seceding any part of it fell under the same rule.
'It is for this reason that history will judge harshly any person or group of persons who make any attempt to dismember any part of our Republic," he said.
The President said it was regrettable that in 1999 some politicians misled people to tear Namibia apart for their own selfish reasons.'"
Addressing the official Heroes' Day commemoration at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Region, Pohamba said Namibia had vowed not to go back to the ruthless apartheid era which ruled the country through segregation and division, and seceding any part of it fell under the same rule.
'It is for this reason that history will judge harshly any person or group of persons who make any attempt to dismember any part of our Republic," he said.
The President said it was regrettable that in 1999 some politicians misled people to tear Namibia apart for their own selfish reasons.'"
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