Senegal will be granted about $70 million by the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the implementation of its community development programme, the bank indicated in a release published on its website last Monday.

This new financing granted as a loan should help implement the second phase of a more than $187.5 billion programme. Planned to be undertaken in four years, this programme should impact 3 million residents in the country, 1.5 million of which are direct beneficiaries.  

In the framework of that programme, more than a hundred rural agriculture companies, boreholes, and horticulture plants will be established. About 710 km of many solar plants, energy networks, and 70 equipped health centers will also be built.

Let’s note that the community development programme, whose first phase was launched in 2015, is aimed at reducing the poverty rate from 67% to 54% in rural areas.

Moutiou Adjibi Nourou