U.S. announces new humanitarian aid for Sub-Saharan Africa
BY JIBRIL TURE
In a press release from the Office of the State Department’s spokesperson, the United States announced today nearly $536 million in life-saving humanitarian assistance from the United States.
The announcement came from Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya. The whopping $536 million package includes $516 million through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and nearly $20 million through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. This new package the total U.S. humanitarian assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa to nearly $3.7 billion so far in Fiscal Year 2024.
According to the press release, the new humanitarian assistance is intended to enable U.S. partners in the region “to respond to the critical needs of more than eight million refugees and asylum seekers as well as more than 30 million internally displaced persons, stateless persons, and conflict-affected people across sub-Saharan Africa, including those affected by crises in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and numerous other new emergency and protracted situations.”
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