Kuwait has pledged $5 million to help support and educate Cambodia's Muslims, a government official said yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah made the pledge during his recently concluded visit, Ahmad Yahya; a government adviser who heads the Cambodian Muslim Community Development was quoted as saying in a report published today by Kuwait Times. He said the fund was in response to a request made by Cambodian Muslim leaders to Kuwaiti officials during the Prime Minister's visit. The money will be used for renovating a mosque in the capital Phnom Penh and building a 2-hectare Islamic center near the mosque, in addition to several schools and mosques in a northeastern Cambodian province, Ahmad Yahya said. Cambodia has an estimated 700,000 Muslims, representing about 5 percent of the country's 14 million people, according the US State Department's annual report.
