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USAID Funding Helps Thousands of Demobilized Soldiers Became Active Citizens
USAID is addressing critical needs by helping thousands of Angolan demobilized soldiers regain their dignity and become productive citizens. For example, USAID supports the Vietnam Veterans Foundation of America (VVAF) in running an orthopedic rehabilitation center to help people with war-related injuries, especially those injured by mines or other explosives.
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New Gateway For Trade Opens in Dakar, Senegal
 November 8, 2005 - USAID Assistant Administrator Lloyd O. Pierson inaugurated a West Africa Trade Hub in Dakar, Senegal. The Dakar hub is designed to promote improvements in Africa’s trade capacity, boost international exports and help businesses take advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – a law that provides trade preferences to countries that are making progress in economic, legal and human rights reforms.
Drought in Africa: USAID Assistance to Niger/Sahel
As part of ongoing assistance for undernourished people in Niger, the US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), chartered two jumbo freighter flights to airlift 206 metric tons (MT) of special, high energy food aid from Vatry, France, to Niger's capital of Niamey on Friday, August 5.
G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland
 The United States has extensive and growing ties with the continent of Africa. This brochure, prepared for the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, highlights some of the U.S. programs to help African countries improve the quality of life for their citizens.
Forum on African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
The government of Senegal
hosted the 2005 U.S.-sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic
Cooperation Forum (AGOA) in Dakar, July 18-20. The AGOA Forum—an
essential element of the African Growth and Opportunity Act—brought together governments of the United States and the thirty-seven
AGOA-eligible countries, as well as representatives from the private sector
and civil society. Participants discussed how AGOA can continue to be a
vehicle to increase trade and investment between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa. [AGOA web site]
Transforming Garbage into Power in Rwanda
 Development associations in Kigali, Rwanda, are transforming their communities by integrating the best in traditional wisdom and practices with cutting-edge solid waste management and biomass processing technologies. These groups, often run by women, manage the community's household garbage by converting it into fuel biomass briquettes for household use and compost organic fertilizer useful in crop production. The SAM Muhima community-based organization enterprise is one such group. [story]
Photo Essay: USAID's Work in Uganda
 USAID programs in Uganda support development in several sectors, including governance, peace building, education, HIV/AIDS, and economic growth. These photos
illustrate aspects of daily life in four Ugandan districts: Luwero, Nakasongola, Kampala, and Kitgum. [photo essay]
Accelerating the Fight Against Malaria
 On June 30, 2005, President Bush challenged the world to reduce the burden of malaria dramatically as a major killer of children in sub-Saharan Africa, and pledged to increase funding of malaria prevention and treatment by more than $1.2 billion over five years. The goal of this effort is reduce malaria deaths by 50 percent in each of the target countries after three years of full implementation.
Fact sheet and other information.
Emergency in Darfur, Sudan
 The humanitarian emergency in Darfur is a direct result of violence and harassment directed toward the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit civilian groups by Government of Sudan (GOS) forces and GOS-supported militia groups collectively known as Jingaweit. [more info]
See also Sudan: A Reinvigorated Commitment
USAID's Strategy in
Africa
Africa’s challenges are numerous and complex, but
there is also much potential and opportunity for growth
and development throughout the continent. Investing in
people is perhaps the single most important factor in economic
growth. USAID will continue to support greater access to
education and health services to build a more educated
and healthier workforce. Because agriculture is the foundation
of most African economies, increasing the productivity
of agriculture is critical to reducing poverty and increasing
food security. The growing HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens
to compromise the economic, social, and democratic gains
made in Africa in recent decades, and new funds and programs
will work to stem this serious threat to Africa’s
future. Violent conflict and instability will remain a
serious risk for almost half of the countries in Africa
for the foreseeable future, yet there are promising signs
that democracy is spreading and taking hold across the
continent. USAID will place greater emphasis on conflict
mitigation and management, and will continue to support
civil society organizations, encourage greater accountability
in government, and promote respect for the rule of law.
Central to USAID’s assistance programs in Africa
are four new initiatives to improve education, increase
agricultural productivity, promote trade with Africa, and
protect the Congo Basin Forest.
Other important elements in USAID’s program include
a new Anti-corruption Initiative to combat this insidious
threat to growth and development in Africa, and a significant
expansion of support for HIV/AIDS related programs, including
the Presidential Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative to reduce the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS.
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Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief
The $15 billion President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is focused on achieving the goals of treating at least two million HIV-infected persons with anti-retroviral therapy, preventing seven million new infections in 14 countries in Africa and the Caribbean, and caring for 10 million persons infected with or affected by HIV, including orphans and vulnerable children.
Delivering on Africa's Promise
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This brochure describes the U.S. government's program of assistance to Africa and highlights President Bush's 2003 trip to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and Nigeria.
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