African Ebola crisis fund is set up

The World Health Organization is to set up a $100m emergency contingency fund following the Ebola outbreak, its director-general announces.

OUT Set to Form Fund for Students With Special Needs
AllAfrica.com
THE Open University of Tanzania (OUT) will continue collaborating with different partners to ensure people with disabilities have an uninterrupted access to higher education from the university. OUT Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tolly Mbwette, said in Dar es Salaam ...

The agriculture catalytic fund would become operational this year and start financing commercial agriculture in the southern corridor, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (Sagcot) has said.

European leaders agree to set up a fund to help Africa tackle "the root causes of irregular migration" at a summit discussing the flow of people from Africa to Europe.

A new fund is launched to boost science in Africa, amid concerns that research is too Western-focused.

President Barack Obama is to ask Congress for $6.2bn to fight Ebola in West Africa and avoid it spreading in the US, officials say.

African art to help fund boys' charity trip
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
Tanya Beaven who is a Teaching assistant at Devizes School has painted a picture of an Elephant to raise funds for students travelling to Tanzania. L-R Ben Thompson, Tanya Beaven and Toby Buller with the painting. Pics by Diane Vose DV2168/02 ...

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
Sixth former's African quest boosted by fund to remember schoolboy
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
A DEVIZES school sixth former is to be helped in her quest to do charitable work in Tanzania thanks to a fund set up in memory of Hugo Halkes who died in a road accident in Devizes. Georgia Bullen, 16, was chosen by Children's Chance to receive a £1 ...

The World Bank announces that it is allocating $200m in emergency assistance to help West African countries contain the Ebola outbreak.