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Nile Basin States launch environment project

           Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) -  Water ministers from the 10 Nile Basin
states decided to launch an environment project sponsored by the World Bank
and other international donors, a Sudanese ecologist said in Khartoum
Monday.According to the general secretary of the Sudanese higher council
for the environment, Nadir Mohammed Awad, the 39-million-US dollar project,
will be based in Khartoum.He said that the project, agreed upon during a
recent meeting in Geneva, would lay down a strategic environmental
framework for the sustainable development of initiatives by member
states.All the Nile Basin's member states -- Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia,
Eritrea , Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo,Rwanda, Burundi
and Tanzania, will be covered by the project. Awad said part of the
project's endeavour would be to build the Nile Basin's institutional and
human capabilities. It will also promote co-operation in environmental
management, administrative know-how, communication and macro-environmental
planning.He said the project would also involve local civil society
organisations in water conservation and the prevention of soil erosion. It
will undertake environment awareness and educational programmes among these
groups.The project will provide for co-operation among member states for
the protection of the region's wetland zones and its bio-diversity.
Khartoum - 10/12/2001




Ryan Hoover
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International Rivers Network
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