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Senegal to Cancel Saudi Desalination Plant Deal, Government Says
Senegal to Cancel Saudi Desalination Plant Deal, Government Says
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Senegal plans to annul a 700 million-euro contract with a Saudi firm to build a water desalination plant, the government confirmed Thursday, the first major... 06.07.2024, Sputnik Africa
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Faye had pledged to review and potentially cancel deals signed by his predecessor, Macky Sall, whom he accused of damaging the country's sovereignty by selling off state assets too cheaply. The desalination project, hailed as one of the biggest private investments in the country, was signed by Saudi Arabia's Acwa Power and Senegal's state water company SONES in the final days of Sall's presidency. The plant near Dakar was to have provided around 400,000 cubic meters of water for the fast-growing capital and other regions as demand soars. Dieye had announced on television late Wednesday that Senegal was to pay Acwa 20 to 40 billion CFA francs ($33 million) a year for the water from the plant, whose construction has not yet begun. He added that "in three or four years, we will need more than 400,000 cubic meters per day because the population of Dakar is growing." Dieye said the government's lawyers were studying the potential legal consequences of breaking the contract, but "construction of the plant has not yet started, so there cannot be any financial damages" for Acwa. Faye, a pan-Africanist who came to power promising to recover Senegal's sovereignty, has said foreign deals in mining, oil and gas, and other key sectors signed under Sall would also be reviewed.
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Senegal to Cancel Saudi Desalination Plant Deal, Government Says
14:39 06.07.2024 (Updated: 14:13 08.07.2024) Agence France Presse (AFP)
Senegal plans to annul a 700 million-euro contract with a Saudi firm to build a water desalination plant, the government confirmed Thursday, the first major international deal to be scrapped since President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's election in March.
Faye had pledged to review and potentially cancel deals signed by his predecessor,
Macky Sall, whom he accused of damaging the country's sovereignty by selling off state assets too cheaply.
The desalination project, hailed as one of the biggest private investments in the country, was signed by
Saudi Arabia's Acwa Power and Senegal's state water company SONES in the final days of Sall's presidency.
The plant near Dakar was to have provided around 400,000 cubic meters of water for the fast-growing capital and other regions as demand soars.
"This project no longer fits with the government's strategy options. We have decided not to pursue it," the country's water minister, Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, said in a statement to AFP.
Dieye had announced on television late Wednesday that
Senegal was to pay Acwa 20 to 40 billion CFA francs ($33 million) a year for the water from the plant, whose construction has not yet begun.
"The price of the water risks increasing because of the technology being used and the required environmental studies were not carried out," he said.
He added that "in three or four years, we will need more than 400,000 cubic meters per day because the population of Dakar is growing."
Dieye said the government's lawyers were studying the potential legal consequences of breaking the contract, but "construction of the plant has not yet started, so there cannot be any financial damages" for Acwa.
Faye, a pan-Africanist who came to power promising to recover Senegal's sovereignty, has said foreign deals in mining, oil and gas, and other key sectors signed under Sall would also be
reviewed.
