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Liberia watchdog says some Ebola funds unaccounted for

A report by Liberia’s anti-corruption watchdog found some $800,000 spent in the fight against Ebola at the height of the outbreak of the disease last year was not properly accounted for, most of it passing through the defense ministry. The General Auditing Commission (GAC) report covering the period from August to October 2014 analyzed more than $13 million spent by the National Ebola Trust Fund (NETF). “The conduct of the

Liberia watchdog says some Ebola funds unaccounted for

A report by Liberia’s anti-corruption watchdog found some $800,000 spent in the fight against Ebola at the height of the outbreak of the disease last year was not properly accounted for, most of it passing through the defense ministry. The General Auditing Commission (GAC) report covering the period from August to October 2014 analyzed more than $13 million spent by the National Ebola Trust Fund (NETF). “The conduct of the

Donors' broken aid pledges made most nations miss education goals: U.N.

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donors’ failure to provide promised funds has led to two-thirds of countries missing some targets in a drive to improve education, with 58 million children still out of school and 781 million adults still illiterate, a United Nations agency said on Thursday. In 2000, 164 countries agreed to try to achieve six key educational goals in the following 15 years, targets