The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved a three-year loan of about US $26.5 million for Djibouti, under its Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF). A statement from the organisation said the loan will support the government’s three-year economic reform programme which began in July 1999. It said the first annual loan would be disbursed in three instalments. The money was intended to strengthen macroeconomic policies and deepen structural reforms to accelerate growth, raise employment levels, reduce poverty and strengthen Djibouti’s external position, IMF’s Deputy Managing Director Shigemitsu Sugisaki said.
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