NIAMEY, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The African Development Bank (AfDB) released about 511 million U.S. dollars to finance four government programs in Niger, an AfDB official said Sunday.
The first targeted program is a 284.96-million-U.S. dollars budget support for basic services, Lamin Barroco, director general of the AfDB's West Africa region, said at a meeting in Niamey with members of the Nigerien government.
The second financing package, estimated at 119.84 million dollars, will support a project to strengthen the supply of drinking water and sanitation to the towns of Zinder and Mirriah and surrounding villages, he said.
Barroco added that the other two financing projects are the Integrated Program for Promoting Youth Agripreneurship in Niger (93.21 million dollars) and the African Disaster Risks Financing Program in Niger (13.31 million dollars). ■