Press Release: Full cooperation with Mauritania resumes with a EUR 66m road project

The European Commission has allocated over €66 million to the road project Kaedi-M'Bout-Selibaby-Gouraye in Mauritania, aiming at improving the living conditions of populations in the south of the country. The approval of this financing proposal follows the decision on 29 May 2006 to fully resume EU aid in response to the progress by the Mauritanian authorities in implementing their commitments with democracy and the rule of law. These funds add to the €13.6m already allocated to Mauritania in support to political reforms undertaken by the new authorities following the coup d'etat of 3 August 2005.