THE World Bank has cut off the flow of aid to Congo with $915000 dollars still in the pipeline, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. “The balance of this grant is suspended pending the restoration of the necessary security and working conditions,” the Brazzaville office managing the funds said in a communique. The grant, awarded a year ago, was earmarked to finance the evaluation of an economic and social reform program set up following the end of civil war in June 1997. However, heavy fighting erupted anew in December last year between the army of President Denis Sassou Nguesso and the militias of ex-president and former premier Pascal Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas, ousted in October 1997.
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