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MOZAMBIQUE: EU Aid for rural development
The European Union (EU) has offered Mozambique US $75 million for development projects in the central and northern parts of the country, media reports said on Monday.
EU representative, Javier Puyol, said about US $30 million would be used for rural development projects in Zambezia, Cabo Delgado and Inhambane provinces. He said the aim of the projects would be to improve the infrastructure and social conditions in sectors such as education, health care and water supply. The remaining US $45 million would be used to help repair the Zambezia-Nampula road. Repairs on the road are expected to begin next year.
ZIMBABWE: DRC strains relations with Tanzania
President Robert Mugabe was reported to have held talks last week in Accra, Ghana,+ with President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania in a bid to shore up a relationship dented by their differing approaches to the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Zimbabwe Independent said at the weekend Mugabe had sought to narrow a "widening gulf that could create several enemies for Zimbabwe in East Africa". The newspaper said relations first suffered when Tanzania withdrew military instructors attached to the DRC government when the war broke on 2 August last year. The following month, Zimbabwe sent an intervention force in support of the DRC government.
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