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Burundi gets 27.5 mln euro grant for water, power

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6 December 2011

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi has received a 27.5 million euro grant from Germany to help improve energy and clean water supplies in the coffee producing nation of 8 million people, a German minister said on Tuesday.

The central African country suffers chronic power shortages and just three percent of the population is connected to the grid. The demand for electricity by households is growing at about 13 percent a year.

'The aid will help to improve living conditions of the population because they will have access to clean water. It will also boost the country's growth because energy is the motor of the economy,' Dirk Niebel, Germany's minister of economic development and cooperation, told a news conference.

Burundi's authorities say the landlocked country needs an additional 270 megawatts over the next five years to meet the high demand in electricity.

(Reporting by Patick Nduwimana; Editing by Richard Lough, Ron Askew)

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