Dar es Salaam, June 30 -- TANZANIA has signed three agreements with France, through the French Development Agency (AFD), for a concessional loan of 230 million euros (about 592.57bn/-), to finance three mega development projects.

The projects include improving supply of water from Lake Victoria to Mwanza city's suburbs of Kisesa and Buswelu and Buhongwa, supporting rural electricity as well as electricity interconnection between Tanzania and Zambia.

The agreement was signed in Dar es Salaam yesterday by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Mr Dotto James on behalf of Tanzania and France Ambassador to Tanzania, Frederic Clavier, on behalf of France and AFD Country Resident Director, Stephanie Essombe.

"The agreem...