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British support for market vendors

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    Claire Short, Britain’s minister for overseas development, launched a micro-credit project for market women during her two-day visit which ended on Friday, a civil society leader in Freetown told IRIN.

    According to NGO leader Zainab Bangura the nationwide project, aimed at increasing women’s economic independence, received a grant of US $50,000 from the British Department for International Development.

    Bangura, who is the coordinator of the Campaign for Good Governance, said Short had consultations on the implementation of Sierra Leone’s peace process with all the major political players in the West African nation as well as civil society representatives.

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