Tag: funding
Godongwana asked to act on terrorist financing
Sanctions imposed by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on four Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and ISIS-Mozambique...
SAA funding talks
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Ministry was talking with Treasury to raise funds to rescue South African Airways (SAA), following a meeting with business rescue...
Burundi vote funding allegations
The youth league of Burundi’s ruling party is forcing citizens to donate money to fund next year’s election, Human Rights Watch said, as fears...
New war funding in Libya
Libya’s UN-recognised government budgeted up to two billion dinars ($1.43 billion) to cover costs of a three-week-old war for control of the capital to...
Report claims IS funding for DR Congo rebel group
An Islamist rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo received money from a financier linked to Islamic State, suggesting tentative ties...
Alternative funding, models needed for SA defence industry – Armscor
The South African defence industry needs to find different funding methods and new models. This includes pursuing lucrative United Nations procurement in...
Boundaries between crime and terror are blurring UN hears
The evolving nexus between crime and terrorism, ranging from street level deals to complex symbiotic relationships, demands greater understanding to break the...
No Chinese funded airport for Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone government terminated a $400 million scheme to build a new airport with Chinese labour and loans, according to a...
US stops funding to Zimbabwean human rights groups
The United States terminated funding to three Zimbabwean human rights and pro-democracy groups three weeks before the election, a move analysts see...
Donor funding needed for G5 Sahel force
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to donors to provide more predictable support to the G5 Sahel force fighting to contain West African...
CArmy adamant more funding must come for the military
If South Africans want a military and particularly an army they can be proud of they have to stand up and tell...
Mali and Niger seek international funding
Mali and Niger, two West African nations worst affected by jihadist violence, appealed for international funding for a regional force to counter...
Defence budget allocation – will the DoD/National Treasury task team make...
Over the past few years a number of SA National Defence Force (SANDF) service chiefs have pointedly warned of the dangers to...
AU needs more funding for peace support operations
The African Union (AU) finds itself in a "highly unsustainable and precarious situation" as regards financing of its peacekeeping and peace support...
U.N. hikes 2016 humanitarian appeal to record $21.6 billion after new...
The United Nations has raised its 2016 humanitarian funding appeal to a record $21.6 billion from $19.7 billion, partly due to new...
EU takes aim where it hurts Burundi: peacekeeper funding
The European Union plans to cut back its funding for Burundi's lucrative peacekeeping contingent in Somalia to try to force President Pierre...
Pentagon cyber program to fund hacker innovation
A hacker-turned-defence official, decrying the government's slowness to change, rolled out a new program that would enable the Pentagon to more quickly...
Meal cutback in Ivory Coast may fuel unrest: WFP
The amount of food given to 430 000 schoolchildren in Ivory Coast has been cut in half due to lack of funding,...
China gives Kenya $7 million development grant
China gave Kenya a 540 million shilling grant to support development projects in east Africa's biggest economy.
The agreement was unveiled during a...
