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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday in Abidjan $21.6 million<\/strong> in grants for the third phase of the National Road Network Rehabilitation Program in the Union of Comoros.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The grants comprise $14.1 million <\/strong>from the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, and $7.5 million<\/strong> from the Transition Support Facility, a special purpose entity within the Bank Group that provides funding complementary to its other instruments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The project\u2019s third phase will focus on improving the RN2 (Ourov\u00e9ni-Foumbouni) in Grand Comores, the main island, the RN21 (Domoni-Mr\u00e9mani) roadway on Anjouan island and Mwali\u2019s RN32 (Wallah-Nioumachoua) roadways. All three are located in areas with substantial economic and tourist potential.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “These road improvements will increase access to inland regions of the country and promote economic growth that is hindered by the deplorable nature of the country’s transport infrastructure,” said Pamphile Codo, the program team leader.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Currently, the RN2 section provides the only access route to the beaches of Ourov\u00e9ni and Mal\u00e9, which are patronized by visitors, including tourists from all over the world. The RN21 serves many villages of the island of Grand Comores, and connects to several regional roads. The RN32 traverses the most fertile region from where the largest share of the country\u2019s agricultural produce is transported to the small port of Howani for onward shipment by boat to the other two islands that makes up Comoros.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Ourov\u00e9ni-Foumbouni section (7.2 km long) is home to 51.5% of the country’s population, the Domoni-Mr\u00e9mani stretch (14 km) has 41.2% of the population and the Wallah-Nioumachoua section (9 km) has 7.3% of the population.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As of February 2022, the African Development Bank Group has four active operations in its Comoros portfolio, with a total commitment of $85 million.<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).<\/i><\/p>\n Media contact:<\/strong> Source<\/a> The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday in Abidjan $21.6 million in grants for the third phase of the National Road Network Rehabilitation Program in the Union of Comoros. The grants comprise $14.1 million from the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, and $7.5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":84340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4380,2462,10180,4710,5989,5111,5118,6687,8265,257,7414,254,12981],"class_list":["post-84339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana-news","tag-commits","tag-comoros","tag-development","tag-fund","tag-million","tag-national","tag-network","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upgrade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84339","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlexis Ad\u00e9l\u00e9
\nCommunication and External Relations Department
\nAfrican Development Bank
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