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Tunisia gets $392.9 million in loans for rail project Tunisia rail network project financed by the European groups, with loans worth some $392.9 million.
Tunisia received EU297 million (about $392.9 million) in loans from the European investment Bank (EIB), the French Development Agency and the German Agency, KFW, to finance part of a rail network project. The 17.2-kilometer transit system is projected to move 352,000 passengers by 2016, according to EIB and the African Business Journal. The North African nation will also receive a €194 million loan to help it build a power plant, said EIB. EIB provided a EU177 million loan while the German agency lent EU70 million for the rail scheme, said both groups. The French agency said it has given Tunisia a EU50 million loan for the same project of which total cost is estimated at EU1.8 billion.