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Cooperation agreements signed with Japan

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    The governments of Japan and Niger signed on Wednesday two agreements worth US $3.4 million to support Niger's anti-poverty programme and improve its health system.

    The first agreement, worth FCFA 500 million (about US $676,000), will reduce Niger's debt service to Japan thereby freeing up money for medical equipment, the Japanese embassy in Cote d'Ivoire, which is also responsible for Niger, said in a statement.

    The second agreement, worth FCFA 2 billion (US $2.7 million), is to improve the stock of medicine and other materials for fighting malaria, respiratory, and diarrhoeal diseases.

    Signed in the capital Niamey by Ambassador Yuji Kurokawa and Niger's minister for foreign affairs and cooperation, Aichatou Mindaoudou, the latest agreements bring to over US $325 million the money the Japan government has donated to Niger since 1976.

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