Mali and Niger are set to benefit from a one-billion-dollar development project aimed at reducing poverty and improving infrastructure.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said The Algerian Agency for International Cooperation for Solidarity and Development will oversee the projects, which will focus on enhancing healthcare and water resources across the two countries.

President Tebboune revealed that the first wave of the projects will include the construction of a dispensary, a school, and a well in Kidal, a suburb in the northern part of Mali.