FREETOWN, Feb 19, 2008 (AFP) - Libya has offered to help Sierra Leone in its post-war rescuscitation of the tourism industry and energy supply sector, the government here said on Tuesday.
A team of technical experts is due in Sierra Leone "within weeks ... to undertake feasibility studies in tourism and energy provision," a government statement said.
The pledges, which include the introduction of flights between Freetown and Tripoli as well as to London by Libya's Afriqiya Airways, followed a weekend visit to Libya by President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Tripoli has also offered to construct a five-star hotel, 30 schools and a prosthetics factory for the production of artificial limbs for mainly war-time amputees.
Libya will dispatch a team of Swiss engineers to carry out a feasibility study to see how Libya can help increase the availability of electricity in the war-battered west African country.
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