Japan to Grant Congo CFAF1.4 Billion to Curb Rising Food Prices

Japan will grant CFAF1.4 billion to the Congolese government to help check rising food prices, a reliable source has told APA. According to the source on Thursday, Japan has also donated US£4 million (CFAF1.8 billion) to the Congo through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support government policy to increase children’s access to quality education and reduce maternal and child mortality.

This financial assistance should benefit more than 6, 500 children living in the districts of Pool (south), the Plateau (center) and Brazzaville.

“These two projects were implemented following the fourth Tokyo International Conference for Africa’s Development,” the Japanese ambassador to Congo, Motoi Kato, said after meeting with Congolese President Denis Sassou N’guesso in Brazzaville, the country’s capital. “We plan to focus our cooperation in the areas of education and health”, he said, noting that “our cooperation should directly benefit the people.”

In 2007, the Japanese government provided Congo with more than 300,000 insecticide-treated mosquitoes as part of a campaign against malaria which is the number one killer disease in the country.

Source African Press Agency

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