{"id":84309,"date":"2016-12-21T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/eu-pays-e10-million-for-rural-roads-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:22:58","slug":"eu-pays-e10-million-for-rural-roads-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/eu-pays-e10-million-for-rural-roads-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"EU pays \u20ac10 million for rural roads in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/eu-pays-euro10-million-for-rural-roads-in-rwanda?lang=en\">EU pays \u20ac10 million for rural roads in Rwanda<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div>The Delegation of the European Union to Rwanda has signed off on a &euro;10 million grant payment to the Government of Rwanda. The grant will go towards the continued rehabilitation and maintenance of 200 kilometres of rural roads in Rwanda. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Rwanda Ambassador Michael Ryan remarked:&nbsp;&#8220;Rural roads provide the backbone of economic activity for nearly 80% of Rwanda&#39;s citizens, most of who depend on farming and small scale commerce for their livelihoods. EU financial support has the ultimate objective of reducing poverty and improving living conditions for Rwandans.&#8221; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The payment is the final stage of the &euro;40 million under the framework of the Sector Policy Support Programme for the improvement of the rural road network in Rwanda over 6 years. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The road networks facilitates access to markets and basic economic and social services as well as enhancing access to food and improve rural policies at the local level. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ambassador Michael Ryan added:&nbsp;&#8220;Eighty percent of our assistance is budget support, a sign of EU confidence in Rwanda&#39;s economic management. I also take this occasion to wish all Rwandans a happy Christmas and a prosperous, peaceful new year&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of EU Delegation to Rwanda.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/0e12a52b3e49b34\/200\/70\" alt=\"EU Delegation to Rwanda\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/eu-pays-euro10-million-for-rural-roads-in-rwanda?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU pays \u20ac10 million for rural roads in Rwanda: The Delegation of the European Union to Rwanda has signed off on a &euro;10 million grant payment to the Government of Rwanda. The grant will go towards the continued rehabilitation and maintenance of 200 kilometres of rural roads in Rwanda. &nbsp; The Head of the Delegation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[22833,4709,5089,1497,2105,11845],"class_list":{"0":"post-84309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-e10","8":"tag-million","9":"tag-pays","10":"tag-roads","11":"tag-rural","12":"tag-rwanda","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}