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 NEW YORK (AP) - Six American foundations are donating $200 million to support universities in seven African nations.
The funding, announced Friday by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, will be spread over five years and builds on $150 million already spent by four of the foundations in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya was recently added.
More than $5 million of the new money will help universities obtain eight times the amount of Internet bandwidth available to them two years ago, at less than a third of the price being paid now.
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