Kuwait loans Ethiopia $25 million to build roads in Tigray

EDITOR’S NOTE: In southern Ethiopia, children cannot even go to school because they are too weak from hunger to attend classes.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The Ethiopian government The Woyanne tribal junta in Ethiopia and the Kuwait Government on Tuesday signed a loan agreement worth over 25 million dollars for the the construction of roads in the African country.

Among other projects, the agreement said, Ethiopia will use the money to construct the Wukro-Zalambesa road spanning 96 kilometres in the north of the country in the Tigray regional state.

Ethiopian State Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), Mekonen Manyazewal and Deputy Director General of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Hesham Ibrahim Al-Waqayan signed the agreement.

Manyazewal said in a statement that the road will help improve the country’s economy.