HARARE James Hurst Jersey , April, 13 (Xinhua) -- The European Union has given 2.49 million U.S. dollars to Zimbabwe to help families facing hunger due to the El Nino-induced drought last year.

The drought left a quarter of the country's population in need of food aid, with the lean season peaking from January to March 2017.

The EU said in a statement Thursday that the additional financial support is being delivered through the EU's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO).

The aid came barely five months after the EU allocated another 8 million dollars from the reserve of the 11th European Development Fund to address the impact of the crises through various resilience-building initiatives.

This latest allocation brings the total contribution by the EU to combat the crisis to 106 million euros (approximately 114 million dollars), the EU said.

Recent flooding experienced in southern parts of the country had also exacerbated the already fragile situation, the EU said.

The additional funding, according to the EU Brandon Carr Jersey , will allow EU's implementing partners, including the UN World Food Programme and Save the Children to increase the reach of actions started in 2016 until the end of the lean season.

The Save the Children project targets over 58,000 affected people in four districts with humanitarian food assistance through mobile cash transfers while the WFP project targets over 67,000 beneficiaries, assisting them through cash transfers.

"The worst has been avoided and we now have to prepare for the future, building more resilient communities against future climate shocks and other hazards Tony Jefferson Jersey ," said EU Head of Delegation Philippe Van Damme.

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Christian college students in Beijing have remained at about 4 percent over the past decade, China Ethnic News (CEN), a newspaper based in Beijing, reported on Tuesday.

The data Danny Woodhead Jersey , which was based on three surveys conducted in 2001, 2009 and 2011, can provide reliable foundation for future research on China's Christian population, according to the report.

The first survey, conducted by Professor Yang Huilin from the Renmin University of China in 2001, randomly selected 306 samples from 6 Nico Siragusa Jersey ,184 undergraduate students in the university and found that 3.6 percent of the students claimed they were Christians.

In 2009, Yang expanded the scope of the survey to 37 colleges and universities in Beijing. After polling 12,407 students, Yang concluded that the percentage had risen slightly to 3.69 percent.

The most recent survey, conducted in 2011, was by Sun Shangyang Tim Williams Jersey , a professor from Peking University. Sun polled 2,000 students from 13 universities and found that 3.9 percent of the respondents said that they believed in Christianity.

"The percentage shows that the group of Christian college students is steady in the competition of all the other religions on campus," Wei Dedong, a vice dean of the School of Philosophy at the Renmin University of China, who wrote the article for China Ethnic News, told the Global Times on Thursday.

"The percentage is relatively low Chris Wormley Jersey , which, from another perspective, could demonstrate how strong an influence traditional Chinese culture has cast on students," said Wei.

According to Yang's study, the percentage of Christian students varied with the subjects the students mostly studied. Those whose core subjects included the arts, sports or social studies were more inclined to be drawn to Christianity.

However Tyus Bowser Jersey , students of engineering or the sciences, tended to apply more critical thinking when it came to religion.

"Students with engineering and science majors are more rational than students of liberal arts. It is more difficult to convince them to believe in a religion," Sun Shangyang, a religion professor with Peking University, who participated in the 2011 survey, told the Global Times on Thursday.

Another question Yang's research answered was on the role of media in awakening students' interest to learn about Christianity.

Yang found that those who were introduced to the religion by families or friends were more likely to become Christians while those who first learned about the religion from books Marlon Humphrey Jersey , movies or Internet were likely to remain non-believers.

"Reading and watching movies are more passive compared with interacting with one's friends and relatives, which explains why friends or family of Christians have a higher possibility to become Christians themselves," Wei said, adding religion classes offer students a perspective more academic and objective.

NAIROBI, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's newly crowned Berlin Marathon champion Dennis Kimetto wrote his name in history when he set a new world record mark of 2:02.57 on Sunday.

He also became the first man to complete a marathon in under two hours, three minutes. His run made him 75 Maxx Williams Ravens Jersey ,000 dollars richer as the first finisher and will add another 68,000 dollars for the world record. Moreover, Kimetto has placed himself at the top of the World Marathon Majors (WMM) leader board with 75 points.

Only compatriot Wilson Kipsang can dethrone him from the helm, should he win in New York City on Nov. 2.

"I know Kimetto has made it even harder for me now. I want to win the WMM jackpot and the only way to do so will be for me to beat the competition in New York," said Kipsang in Nairobi on Sunday.

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