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Turkey pledges $75 mln at Darfur donor meeting
Turkey pledged $60-75 million through 2015 for water, education and agricultural projects, while Algeria pledged $10 million with a focus on health and job training. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu represented Turkey at the meeting.
Investment in infrastructure, health, education and agriculture is vital to ending conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region and nurturing the relative peace from recent cease-fire deals, Egypt said.
“Since the beginning of the crisis in Darfur, the basic issue has been one of development, which has taken on political, tribal and social dimensions,” Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an opening statement. “This is what makes us certain the core solution to the Darfur crisis must focus on increasing rates of development and improving the standard of living for each citizen in Darfur,” he added.
The donor conference was backed by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) but also included representatives from China, the United States, Russia, Britain, France and others.
Sudan has been pushing to resolve the conflict in its western Darfur region before elections next month and has signed cease-fire deals with two rebel groups since February.
Some fighting has continued, however, and talks toward a final peace pact with the main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, have been faltering.
Donors have convened several conferences for Sudan, stricken by multiple conflicts over the years, but complicated aid structures have held up some spending and not all pledges have fully materialized.
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