Nigeria, 15 Other West African Countries To Benefit From EU's 1.1bn Euros Support

Nigeria and other West African countries will benefit from the proposed European Union support worth about1.15 billion euros, approximately $1.27 billion between 2015 and the year 2020.

 

In a statement issued by the Commission in Brussels, EU said ‘the programme’ under the 11th European Development Fund would focus on peace and security, regional economic integration and trade, and sustainable development of natural resources and biodiversity.

 

It quoted European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, as saying that the signing of the funding agreement was the “ambitious starting point for preparing new, concrete projects.”

It said the new funding doubled the support from the last programming period. The previous regional programme which ran between 2008 and 2013 for West Africa had a budget of 595 million euros.

 

According the press statement, 16 countries will benefit from the EU-West Africa regional indicative programme, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana and Guinea.

 

Others are Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.