The Nation Newspaper ECOWAS splashes $26.2m on humanitarian activities from 2023 to 2024 – Commissioner
The Economic Community of West African States, Friday, said it has splashed $26 million on humanitarian activities within the region between 2023 and 2024.In the area of youth innovation, the Commissioner for Human Development and Social Affairs, Professor Fatou Sow Sarr, said the regional body start-ups in scientific innovation with the sum of $50,000., said a total of $700,000 was used for the training of 30 young people from the region in Masters and PHD programmes.
She stressed that ECOWAS puts significant resources into the humanitarian sector for displaced people, migration, floods and various forms of disaster:She said, “Guinea under sanctions received nearly 600,000 dollars in January 2024, namely: 100,000 dollars for the fire at the oil depot and 499,390 dollars for the floods.”Prof. Sarr said, “In 2023 for floods and nutrition, out of a total of 8.
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