Chinese Ministry of Defense provides grant for Government Wharf Slipway Construction Project (Linked to Project ID#62951 and #86459)

In a speech delivered on February 18, 2019, Sierra’s Leone's President announced that grant funding from the Chinese Ministry of Defense to Sierra Leone's Armed Forces would be used to finance the enhancement of the Government Wharf in Freetown by constructing a dry-docking and a slipway facility. The current status of this project is unknown. The funding for the project is reportedly being drawn from an RMB 50 million military grant assistance agreement that the Chinese Government and the Government of Sierra Leone signed in March 2018 (captured via Project ID#62951).

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1. According to the same February 18, 2019 speech, the remaining proceeds of the grant were to be used to refurbish Myohaung Officers Mess (as captured via Project ID#86459) and to refurbish a Hockey Pitch.

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