USD 38 Million Road Fails
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Donor aid has limited impact in Yemen due to corruption and administrative incompetence.
SABA’A, Jan. 30 (Saba) – A delegation from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) has visited the project of Dhamar-al-Hhusainia road to get acquainted with the failure reasons of the project’s implementation.
The delegation accompanied by the deputy minister of public works Abdul-Wahab al-Hakem was briefed on the implementation progress of the project and reviewed the difficulties and the means of overcoming them.
The delegation and the contractor agreed on completing the project within a specified timetable ends in the mid of July 2009.
The 257 km-length road project from Dhamar to al-Husainia is implemented by the Yemeni Rehab company and the Turkish Norak company at a cost of $38 million, 88 percent of which financed by the AFESD.
