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US government details assistance provided this year

    NAIROBI

    The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday released details of the US government’s assistance to Burundi of an estimated US $28 million to date in fiscal year 2001. In a statement, USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) said the aid included more than US $6.2 million pledged in emergency non-food assistance to Burundi through various UN and NGO programmes. Additional resources will support further emergency activities in food security, coordination, and nutrition assistance. USAID has so far provided 11,900 mt of emergency commodities to WFP valued at US $6.3 million to support comprehensive nutrition programmes and an assistance package to vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs), the statement said.

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