Brussels, 28/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 26 December, the European Commission approved a series of humanitarian aid measures for Africa worth €165.7 million. The funds are managed by the Humanitarian Aid department of the Commission under the responsibility of Louis Michel, EU Development and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, mostly through 'Global Plans' for large-scale aid in 2006. The aid will go to Burundi (€17 million), Chad (€13.5 million), Comoros (€600,000), the Democratic Republic of Congo (€38 million), Côte d'Ivoire (€5.2 million), Liberia (€16.4 million), Madagascar (€500,000), Sudan (€48 million), Tanzania (€11.5 million) and Uganda (€15 million). Projects will be implemented by relief agencies operating in the target regions in the next few months, like the United Nations, the Red Cross and NGOs. “Today we remember the victims of the tsunami in South East Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts,“ said Louis Michel. “These are silent tsunamis. Many of these catastrophes do not hit the headlines in the western media but they still lead to great suffering. The Commission is continuing to address these crises and these latest decisions turn our commitment into a multitude of concrete actions.”