Mauritania: World Bank stages comeback

  1. Posted on Thursday 8 October 2009 - 09:17
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    Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
    The World Bank announced today it was resuming assistance to Mauritania that was suspended last year following a military coup. The first Briton Woode institution to renew ties with Mauritania was the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after peaceful presidential elections last July.
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    The World Bank is freeing up 14 of the $16 million frozen last year after Gen. Aziz toppled the nation's first freely-elected leader. World Bank’s representative in the country, Madani Tall, said the funds will help improve infrastructure.

    The country’s peaceful presidential elections, which brought former general and coup plotter, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to head a new civilian government, has been alluring a number of international institutions that had turned their back on the West African nation.

    The IMF said it shares the poverty-fighting goals of President Aziz. The European Union last month said it would expand Mauritania’s existing rural water projects, according to an AP report.

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has confirmed it was resuming full cooperation with Mauritania.

    NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue security forum is aimed at improving regional security by linking the group's 28 members with non-NATO countries - Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania.

    This is in line with the new administration’s big priority of fighting terrorism, which has revived French efforts to improve security cooperation, according to the French ambassador to Mauritania, Michel Vandporter.

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