{"id":229314,"date":"2026-04-02T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-world-bank-approves-two-332-5m-projects-to-boost-water-security-and-resilience\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:52:02","slug":"tunisia-world-bank-approves-two-332-5m-projects-to-boost-water-security-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-world-bank-approves-two-332-5m-projects-to-boost-water-security-and-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: World Bank Approves Two $332.5m Projects to Boost Water Security and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Tunis, April 2 \u2014 The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved two projects to improve potable water services for millions of Tunisians, modernise irrigated agriculture, and support jobs and livelihoods in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The two new projects, financed by a US$332.5 million commitment, make up the first phase of the Tunisia Water Security and Resilience Programme, which addresses both rural and urban water challenges, the World Bank said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The programme is expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604020113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, April 2 \u2014 The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved two projects to improve potable water services for millions of Tunisians, modernise irrigated agriculture, and support jobs and livelihoods in rural areas. The two new projects, financed by a US$332.5 million commitment, make up the first phase of the Tunisia Water Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[54070,258,256,8326,7089,6557,257,6039,18205,4586,254,4703,653,6722,5093],"class_list":["post-229314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-332-5m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-bank","tag-boost","tag-news","tag-projects","tag-resilience","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-water","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}