SENEGAL: €152 million for TER and sanitation in Diamniadio
Future headquarters of the 34 UN agencies in Senegal, host city of the 15th Francophonie Summit in 2014 and even the World Water Forum (WWF) in March 2022, Diamniadio is in the midst of a transformation. Located on the outskirts of Dakar, it will soon have new sanitation facilities and a railway section financed by two West African banks.
In Senegal, the construction of the new town of Diamniadio intended to relieve congestion in Dakar continues. The project launched in 2015 benefits from financial support of 152 million euros. The funds are provided by the ECOWAS Investment and Development Bank (EBID) within the framework of several agreements focused on rail transport and public hygiene in the suburbs of the Senegalese capital.
For a cost of 30 billion CFA francs (45.7 million euros) financed mainly by the EBID, the first agreement concerns the construction of a “wastewater treatment plant and emergency works of integrated development of primary roads” in the Diamniadio urban center. The aim is to strengthen the connection to the sanitation network in 20 neighborhoods where the 30,000 Diamnois live in currently unsanitary conditions.
Financing the sustainable city
As for the second agreement, it records on the one hand the disbursement of 35 billion CFA francs (53.4 million euros) recently approved by the BOAD Board of Directors and on the other hand the contribution of a similar amount of the EBID for the financing of the second phase of the Regional Express Train (TER) of Dakar. The current work aims to construct a 19-kilometer section which should extend the railway infrastructure to Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) located a few minutes from Diamniadio. As a reminder, the Dakar TER makes it possible to avoid emissions of 92,000 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent per year.
Financing agreements worth 152 million euros were signed recently in Lomé, Togo. It was in the presence of George Agyekum Donkor, the president of the EBID and Moustapha Ben Barka, the vice-president of the BOAD. The two regional financial institutions are jointly investing in these projects because they demonstrate “financial credibility, political stability and the relevance of modern initiatives to stimulate growth” within Téranga, suggested Doudou KA, the Senegalese minister. of Economy, Planning and Cooperation.
