A water project for the Great Industrial rive in Libya inaugurated

Libyan President Muaammar al-Qaddafi and heads of states and governments of the African states, members in the Sahel-Sahara states who are convening their 4th summit in Sert city on Thursday inaugurated one of the greatest projects for recollecting water in the course of the "Great man-made river" in Sert.

According to official Libyan sources, the water reservoir's capacity is more than 15 million cubic meters to be added to the old reservoir whose capacity is over 6 million cubic meters and therefore to irrigate 18,000 hectares of the cultivated lands.

Libyan sources said that the total cost for implementing this reservoir reached 29 million Libyan dinars and the period of its implementation lasted 9 years.

Meantime, works of the African summit for the countries of the Sahel-Sahara coalition continued on Thursday with a close door meeting dedicated to reconsider several political and security matters especially the conflict facing several member states in the coalition including Sudan, central Africa, Somalia and Eritrea.

On Wednesday and at the inauguration of the summit al-Qaddafi called for building a peace keeling force in central Africa.