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afrol.com, 8 July - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (ADB) yesterday approved a Technical Assistance Fund (TAF) grant of US $ 500,000 for emergency relief to flood victims in The Gambia. The objective of the emergency operation is to assist the flood affected communities of The Gambia to cope with the flood damages incurred during the rainy season of 1999. It particularly seeks to rapidly rehabilitate the agriculture infrastructure as well as supply the agricultural inputs needed to produce food for the victims of the flood as well as provide safe drinking water. The project will involve urgent repairs of dykes and spillways in the lowlands of the worst affected areas. It will also involve the purchase of long floating rice seeds and other inputs as well as the rehabilitation of 35 and treatment of 116 wells. The loan represents the Bank Group contribution to The Gambia Government and other donor efforts to provide urgent assistance after the destructive effects of the floods on the farming population. The African Bank of Development's operations in The Gambia started in 1971. To date, the bank group has committed a total of US$ 240.87 million on 38 operations out of which about US$ 172.17 million have been disbursed.
Source: ADB
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