Mozam­bique has just signed on to a new batch of loans from the World Bank. The loan should help to develop infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy and health ser­vices in the country.

From News 24, we get more details on what the loans will go for.

The agree­ments which were signed by World Bank interim rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Luiz Tavares and Cuereneia con­sisted of a $75.6m agree­ment to fund health and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy from the World Bank and another one of $15.6m from the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment, $4.3m from the Swedish gov­ern­ment and $7.9m from the Russ­ian government.

Cuereneia said projects run by the min­istries of sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy, health and trans­port and com­mu­ni­ca­tions would ben­e­fit from the loans.

Tavares said the amount des­tined for the health sec­tor would seek to reduce high mor­tal­ity rates in chil­dren and women caused by malaria, tuber­cu­lo­sis, HIV/Aids and preg­nancy complications.

It would also fund the con­struc­tion of 25 health cen­tres in three poor north­ern provinces.

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