Zimbabwe to spend 58 mln USD on road repair

Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-05 00:37:47|Editor: huaxia
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HARARE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) on Tuesday said it had raised 58.6 million U.S. dollars through an infrastructure bond issued to mobilize funds for a national emergency road repair program.

"Zinara entered into the Zimbabwe financial market for the purpose of raising short-term debt of 100 million dollars by leveraging on 2017 disbursements," the state media New Ziana quoted from the statement of Zinara.

Due to the heavy rains and floods in the last rainy season, most of the country's roads were already in a poor state owing to years of neglect.

On the other hand, the Zimbabwean government has been making efforts to rehabilitate major highways, having completed the rehabilitation of the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare highway. Enditem

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