India Funds Sierra Leone Water Supply Projects

India is to extend a $30m loan to Sierra Leone to revamp its ageing water system in the capital Freetown and the town of Kailahun.

The loan will help improve the country’s water supply infrastructure, which was damaged in the decade-long civil war that ended in 2002.

Under the agreement, Indian company Angelic International will undertake the project to provide pipe-borne water to all 12 districts in the country, according to terradaily.com.

Sierra Leone has also carried out feasibility studies for a new dam at Orugu, 15 miles east of the capital, and plans to build it with an investment of $300m.