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US $50m urban revival project

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    Mauritania is reviewing a US $50-million World bank funded project for Nouakchott, aimed at improving living conditions in the capital’s poor neighbourhoods, AFP reported on Sunday.

    The main goal is to reduce poverty among 40 percent of the city’s two million residents. Poor neighborhoods sprung up following droughts in the 1970s and an effort to modernise the city, AFP reported.

    Meanwhile, Prime Minister Cheick Al-Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna announced on Sunday that the country had experienced a 5-percent economic growth rate in 2000. He added that the country expected to notch that up to 5.5 percent in 2001.

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