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Current Feed ContentIMF Approves US$75.6 Million PRGF Arrangement for BurundiThe Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year SDR 46.2 million (about US$75.6 million) arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for Burundi, to support the implementation of the country's poverty reduction program and its efforts to consolidate macroeconomic stability. It takes into account the financial impact of rising world food and oil prices in 2008. The Executive Board's approval enables Burundi to draw an amount...BURUNDI: Sex and drugs leave Bujumbura's homeless at risk of HIVThousands of children and adults living rough on the streets of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, face a daily struggle to eat and find a warm corner to sleep in; many blot out the reality of their situation by turning to sex and drugs. Innocent Bagayuwitonze, now 26, has been living on the streets for 12 years. He told IRIN/PlusNews that he used the pittance he earned as a casual labourer to pay local sex workers for their services. Unable to muster the same fee as other men, he only gets lucky...BURUNDI: Ancilla Riziki: “We live on rich people’s garbage”Ancilla Riziki, 38, lives with her nine children in Buterere, one of the poorest suburbs of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura. Struggling to find formal employment and with a large family to feed, she works on a rubbish dump, foraging through the garbage all day with no protection for her hands and feet. “We were living at Gasenyi in the north of Bujumbura in 1993 but we had to leave because of the war. Kamenge was becoming a battlefield; every house was being destroyed. The whole population... |
