AFESD affirms support development plans in Yemen

SANA'A, March 12 (Saba) - Arab Fund
for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) affirmed on Thursday its support to the
development
and construction plan in Yemen.
AFESD Board Chairman Abdullatif al-Hamad said, upon his departure from Sana'a, that
the Fund backs Yemen's plans in projects of sanitation, electricity, public works
and
roads.
He said that he held talks with the Yemeni officials on the AFESD loaning program
to Yemen in the future.
Yemen and AFESD signed last Wednesday two agreements, under which the Fund offers
KD 22.5 million to help funding the rural roads development project and protection
Sana'a
from floods.
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