- Egyptian government is planning to spend over LE 5.5 billion on water and sanitary drainage schemes to provide purified water for all its towns and villages, as part of programme to extend sanitary drainage network to cover the rest of country.
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said yesterday that schemes were accorded top priority in his government programmes in 2007/2008 fiscal budgets, in addition to equal sums in non-traditional financing resources.
Dr Nazif's said this at a meeting with minister of housing, utilities and urban communities, Ahmed el-Maghrabi, to review the schemes as well as national plan aimed at developing of impoverished Egyptian villages.
Speaking at same meeting, Mr Maghrabi said his ministry was seriously pushing through all water and sanitary drainage schemes, through prime minister’s urging, to accord them top priority in investment plan.
He pointed out that some LE 35 billion had been allocated for these projects in five-year plan, in addition to extra-budgetary investments from non-traditional resources at behest of president Hosni Mubarak, who insisted on implementing water and health drainage schemes in all Egyptian villages.
"Purified water had been introduced in all villages and towns with the exception of some small pockets that would be reached soon,'' the minister said, adding that renovations of water networks were being implemented to ensure round the clock water supply.
Sanitary drainage networks in cities have been completed and rural areas will soon be covered, cabinet spokesperson, Dr Magdi Radi said.
Meeting is to have also covered a follow-up of national project, which seeks to develop impoverished villages with aim of raising living conditions in an integrated manner.
Dr Nazif has appealed for a comprehensive involvement on civil society part in these projects, to play a basic role in managing them and in follow-up activities.
Six villages with 36,000 inhabitants and other nine with 45,000 inhabitants were already covered by this plan in Beni Suef and Sharqiya at a tune of LE 4.5 billion.
According to Dr Radi, second stage involved 149 villages in Fayum, Assiut, Minya, Qena, Sohag, and others.
afrol News - It is called "financial inclusion", and it is a key government policy in Rwanda. The goal is that, by 2020, 90 percent of the population is to have and actively use bank accounts. And in only four years, financial inclusion has doubled in Rwanda.
afrol News - The UN's humanitarian agencies now warn about a devastating famine in Sudan and especially in South Sudan, where the situation is said to be "imploding". Relief officials are appealing to donors to urgently fund life-saving activities in the two countries.
afrol News - Fear is spreading all over West Africa after the health ministry in Guinea confirmed the first Ebola outbreak in this part of Africa. According to official numbers, at least 86 are infected and 59 are dead as a result of this very contagious disease.
afrol News - It is already a crime being homosexual in Ethiopia, but parliament is now making sure the anti-gay laws will be applied in practical life. No pardoning of gays will be allowed in future, but activist fear this only is a signal of further repression being prepared.
afrol News / Africa Renewal - Ethiopia's ambitious plan to build a US$ 4.2 billion dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, 40 km from its border with Sudan, is expected to provide 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough for its population plus some excess it can sell to neighbouring countries.
front page
| news
| countries
| archive
| currencies
| news alerts login
| about afrol News
| contact
| advertise
| español