I don't know about news or international companies. However my SO did NGO aide work in Africa for some years . On every deployment she went, there was not such an actual survival school training from a bush-craft view, as much as it was very thorough safety and security training. The topics touched on survival aspects such as what to do when facing armed people, what to to when kidnapped, map reading and navigation for E&E purposes, first aid, basic local language skills etc. Almost all the people who instructed the training had former specialized military backgrounds.

All this training came in handy for my SO when her aide group got caught up in the Rwandan Genocide in the mid 1990's along the Zaire/Rwanda border. That situation swiftly became extremely dangerous. The aide group she was with, escaped out of there with barely any food water or other supplies and made their way back to Europe then home about 2 weeks later.

As I mentioned here before, my SO is going back to Africa (Dec. 8th) for another NGO deployment for 6-8 months and the security concerns for aide workers is even more paramount then years ago. Without going into detail for security reasons, the aide group she will be working with has some very extensive and more up to date training that she and others will be put through before they reach their deployment area in Africa.