Addis Ababa - The French development agency (AFD) is giving €11,5-million (about R74,67-million) to Ethiopia, to help fund irrigation projects in several regions of the drought-stricken country, said the Ethiopian authorities on Friday. The money will be used to buy equipment and build small dams and water derivation gates to irrigate about 2 500 hectares of land. A convention setting out the conditions of the donation was signed in Addis Ababa on Friday by the AFD's regional director in the Horn of Africa, Jean-Pierre Lemelle and Ethiopia's deputy minister of development and economic cooperation Mulatu Teshome. The aim is to make it possible to improve food production in areas affected by drought.

Source: Ethiopian News September 13, 2017 13:18 UTC