{{The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has told Western donors to unfreeze aid to Rwanda to avoid damaging its economy and causing a new crisis in the region.}}<\/p>\n
Aid to Rwanda should resume “as soon as possible and that means yesterday,” said AfDB president Donald Kaberuka.<\/p>\n
“The damage could be significant,” Kaberuka told Reuters in an interview on Thursday, adding the cutting of aid flows could create a crisis in the region.<\/p>\n
Kaberuka said the aid cuts risked reversing development in Rwanda’s health, education and other social sectors, achieved as the country tries to recover from the 1994 genocide.<\/p>\n
Kaberuka, who is on his second term at the Continental Bank in Tunis, said the AfDB is offering Rwanda $45 million in budgetary support this financial year.<\/p>\n
He said Sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, was likely to grow by 6.4% next year, buoyed by increased internal demand largely because of urbanisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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