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France provides aid worth 6 billion F CFA

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    France and Niger signed an aid agreement on Tuesday that will go towards paying the salaries of civil servants, some of whom have arrears stretching back over a year, AFP reported the French ambassador as saying. Denis Vene said on Niger national radio that the "exceptional aid" followed the organisation of transparent elections in November 1999 that brought President Mamadou Tandja to power, AFP reported. A source at the French embassy in Niamey told IRIN the agreement was worth some 6 billion F CFA (US $9 million). France had suspended its cooperation with Niger following the assassination on 9 April of former president Ibrahim Mainassara by members of the presidential guard.

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