NEW YORK, LONDON, THE HAGUE, Netherlands and TUNIS, Tunisia, Feb.

NEW YORK, LONDON, THE HAGUE, Netherlands, and TUNIS, Tunisia, Aug.

VIENNA, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and four African countries (Ethiopia, the Gambia, Niger and Sierra Leone) today signed loan agreements totalling to US$62.4 million to finance projects in key development sectors - energy, education, transport, water and agriculture.

Text of report by Ghanaian privately-owned radio station Joy FM on 6 September [Unattributed report: "African Ministers and Donors Chart Way Forward on Soaring Food Prices"] At a landmark dialogue held in Accra yesterday, over 40 African Ministers met with heads of donor agencies to discuss the crises caused by soaring food and fuel prices, and urged the international donor community to "untie aid and remove restrictions on food aid so that the adverse impacts of the crisis on people and national economies can be reduced." The meeting came at the invitation of the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) and was held on the margins of the Accra Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness on improving the quality and impact of development assistance.

AfDB to fund Morocco's thermo-solar power plant RABAT, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The African Development Bank (AfDB) granted Morocco on Monday a loan of 151.4 million euros (237.7 million dollars) to build a thermo-solar power plant in the east of the north African kingdom, local MAP news agency reported.