This opens the aid channels – worth $900m£615m5m) a year in Mali's case.
The projects were jointly funded by the Egyptian government and international aid channeled through UNESCO.
Having tried, without great success, to run aid efforts directly, the organisers of Band Aid and Live Aid channelled millions to the NGOs in Ethiopia.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans, dependent on food aid after drought and decades of conflict, now face imminent starvation because aid channels have been cut by the war.
The critics soon found their voice again when it became clear that much of this would be bilateral aid, rather than aid channelled through the Global Fund.
He would like to see development aid channelled through micro-finance schemes, so that it reaches rural people for developmental initiatives.
Developed nations prefer to use traditional aid channels such as their own overseas development agencies or multilateral agencies such as the World Bank.
The goals decide the international targets of global aid channelled bilaterally and multilaterally through organisations such as the World Bank and the IMF.
Washington has also suspended direct development aid to Zimbabwe's government but provides considerable humanitarian aid, channeled through private and international agencies, to pay for emergency shipments of food, medicine and clean water.
