
US donates $96m to Ethiopia
21/09/2007 09:50 - (SA)
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Addis Ababa - The United States said on Friday that it is donating $96m to Ethiopia in recognition of the Horn of Africa country's "strategic importance".
The money, channelled through USAid, was to fund agricultural and private sector development, health care, primary education and good governance, a statement said.
Ethiopia received US backing last year after it deployed troops to neighbouring Somalia to overthrow an Islamist movement accused of harbouring extremist elements.
USAid mission director Glenn Anders said: "The agreements ... fulfil and even exceed the commitments in our five-year strategic development plan ..."