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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10197
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid

Commission allocates €10 million for the vulnerable in Liberia

Brussels, 06/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Friday 6 August that it would allocate €10 million in emergency humanitarian aid to assist some 500,000 vulnerable persons in Liberia.

Funds will be provided by ECHO (the Commission's civil protection and humanitarian aid service) budget. Of this humanitarian aid package, €7 million will be used to finance operations in the health sector such as: - preventive and curative primary and secondary health care; -...