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Voters Chose Secession for Southern Sudan, Provisional Referendum Results Show
Provisional results announced in Juba Sunday for the referendum on self-determination for southern Sudan indicate that southern Sudanese voted overwhelmingly to secede and form a new nation. Of more than 3.8 million votes cast, nearly 99 percent chose secession, and just over 1 percent chose unity with northern Sudan.
USAID Shows Youth the Benefits of Conserving Energy
By: Olha Myrtsalo, USAID/Ukraine Saving energy is key to any country’s solid economic future and to its future as an independent country. Teaching this generation of youth to take ownership over energy-saving best practices proves paramount in ensuring Ukraine’s sustainable energy future. Ukraine’s dependence on imports from Russia for most of its energy supply makes [...]
Technology to Encourage Stability in Volatile East African Regions
By: USAID/East Africa Most people are familiar with how information can be used to promote conflict. Media control and propaganda can spread misinformation, fear, and violence. Purposeful jamming or outright destruction of communications lines during attacks can prolong the length and severity of conflict. But can information and technology be used to promote peace instead? [...]
USAID In the News (1/24/2011–1/28/2011)
January 24: In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy’s “The Cable” blog, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah responded to calls from Republicans in Congress to cut development and foreign aid, stating it would undermine US national security. Shah explained that it would not only put USAID’s reforms in jeopardy, but have “real and drastic negative [...]
Feed the Future launches Comprehensive Approach to engaging the Private Sector
By: Tjada McKenna,Director, Private Sector and Innovation Office, Bureau for Food Security At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Administrator Shah proudly announced USAID’s support for the WEF’s New Vision for Agriculture initiative. This initiative is led by 17 global companies, including Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Monsanto, [...]
U.S. and Russia Further Cooperation In The Fight Against Polio
Submitted by Jonathan Hale, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe & Eurasia While in Moscow last summer, I visited the M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and saw the history of collaboration between the U.S. and Russia on polio research. I saw opportunity to advance our cooperation to address new challenges and work with Russian experts to [...]
‘Modern Development Enterprise’ – A Major Address by Administrator Shah
By: Ari Alexander, Deputy Director at the Center for Faith-based & Community Initiatives and the Coordinator of Global Engagement As featured in the White House Blog Last week, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah gave a major address to over 200 non-governmental organizations, think-tanks, academics, and international development leaders hosted by the Center for Global Development. [...]
Microfinance Empowers Entrepreneurs in Tanzania
By Gregg Rapaport, Development Outreach and Communications Program In a packed and conversation-filled room in northern Tanzania, the wheels of microfinance are spinning – quietly and efficiently, yet furiously. Every week, this group of people owning and running small businesses worth less than $700 comes together in Arusha to make payments on microloans received from [...]
USAID’s January Frontlines
Read the latest edition of USAID’s premier publication, FrontLines for these stories: Military troops and civilians work together to fulfill U.S. President Barack Obama’s pledge of U.S. support to a renewed Afghanistan Newborns and their mothers in Afghanistan are the winners after a concerted effort to knock down the nation’s abysmal infant and maternal death [...]
Response to Natural Disasters in Brazil
By Isadora Ferreira, Development Outreach and Communications Officer for USAID/Brazil When today’s adults were in school, 20, 30 or 40 years ago, we used to learn that Brazil was a blessed country, because we didn’t have wars, we didn’t have volcanoes or hurricanes, and we didn’t have floods. We are now over 190 million people, [...]
