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French development aid for Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana

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    Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana are among 11 developing countries to which the Agence francaise de developpement (ADF - French Development Agency) has awarded financial aid in October, the ADF reported.

    The sum of 9.45 million euros will go to the rehabilitation of the Buyo hydroelectric dam in south-western Cote d’Ivoire, which accounts for 20 percent of the energy produced in the country, the AFD reported on 13 October. The dam, to which AFD had provided 32 million euros in financing in 1980, also supplies electricity to Ghana, Benin and Togo.

    (1 euro is equivalent to US $1.08.)

    Ghana is to receive 11 million euros for the second phase of a project to improve drainage infrastructure in Accra.

    Other countries for which financing was approved in October include Algeria, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco and Mozambique.

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