Washington — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today an International Development Association (IDA)* additional credit of US$125 million for the High-Priority Roads Reopening and Maintenance Project - Pro-Routes.
The activities proposed under the new funds would increase the number of km of roads improved and re-opened under the original project to a total of about 3.344 km, which is about 30 percent of the 9,000 km of the high-priority earth roads network. In doing so, the project would re-establish lasting road access between provincial capitals, districts and territories in the Orientale (Tshopo, Bas-Uele and Ituri), North and South-Kivu, Katanga (Tanganyika and Haut-Katanga), and Equateur (Sud-Ubangi) provinces, and open up road links to Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR).
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