Niger Receives $23 Million From US to Improve Social Sectors

The United States granted Niger $23 million under the “Millennium Challenge Corporation” (MCC) in a bid to support the reinforcement programs of some social sectors and promote good governance, APA learnt Wednesday in Niamey from official sources.

The Niger economy and finance minister, Lamine Zeine, and the director of the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) in West Africa, Henderson Patrick, signed the grant agreement on Tuesday during a solemn ceremony chaired by Niger Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou.

The MCC is a program centered around three main components i.e. particularly to improve the fight against poverty, rationalize free trade and rights to land procedures and the primary education of the girl child.

“Niger developed a poverty reduction strategy with emphasis on the improvement of health, primary school education, rural infrastructures, agricultural production, environmental protection and judicial reform,” the MCC deputy manager, Rodney Bent, explained.

Niger could thus develop a solid basis for its economic development, he said, adding that the MCC is allotted to countries which are firmly determined to improve their performances according to eligibility criteria.

Source African Press Agency

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