{"id":19896,"date":"2011-02-23T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=19896"},"modified":"2011-02-23T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T04:40:06","slug":"sierra-leone-bags-us-19-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=19896","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Bags US$ 19 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a bid to provide adequate water supply and proper sanitation in the country, Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, HE Jongopie S. Stevens, has signed a US$19.0 million loan agreement, with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), in Vienna, Austria.\u00a0 (Photo: <em>Ambassador Stevens signing the OFID loan<\/em>)<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a press release issued by the Sierra Leone Embassy in Berlin-Germany, the money will be used to implement water and sanitation projects in the three provincial headquarter towns of Bo, Kenema, and Makeni respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Stevens, who also doubles as Sierra Leone\u2019s Permanent Representative to all UN Agencies including International organisations in Austria, expressed delight and thanked OFID for what he called \u201ctheir timely intervention to improve the lives of people in Sierra   Leone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He  reiterated the US$42.0 million grants initially signed between the  government of Sierra Leone and the African Development Bank (ADB),  totaling S$61 million for the implementation of the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ambassador noted that the project is a fulfillment of his government\u2019s agenda to reduce poverty and accelerate economic growth in the country adding that, the successful completion of the project would create improved water and sanitation in health centers, schools and other public places within the targeted districts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_19898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 458px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Abmassador_Stevens_flanked_by_Head_of_Chancery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19898\" title=\"Abmassador_Stevens_flanked_by_Head_of_Chancery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Abmassador_Stevens_flanked_by_Head_of_Chancery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><em>Ambassador Stevens flanked by Mr. Kondeh, Head of Chancery and Mr. Breitenthaler, Honorary Consul General in Austria<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signing on behalf of the OPEC Funds for International Development, The Director General, Mr. Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, said his organization was pleased to offer the loan in order to reduce poverty through the provision of safe drinking water and good sanitation for the underprivileged in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Al-Herbish disclosed that, the relationship between OFID and Sierra Leone dates back since 1972. He further assured Ambassador Stevens for his organization\u2019s unremitting support to the government of Sierra   Leone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior officials of the OPEC Funds for International Development, including Sierra  Leone\u2019s Head of Chancery to the Federal Republic of Germany and Honorary Consul to Austria, Mr. Al-hassan K Kondeh, were present.<\/p>\n<p><em>Umaru Jarr<\/em><em>, Berlin<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to provide adequate water supply and proper sanitation in the country, Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, HE Jongopie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1221,1],"tags":[5716,84,7081,744,5492,7082,7083],"class_list":["post-19896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-ambassador-jongopie-stevens","tag-development","tag-loan-with-ofid","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-suleiman-jasir-al-herbish","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}