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Senegal: State acquires a power station
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14 April 2010 In order to establish better control over the development and access to electricity in Senegal, the State is going to acquire the power station of its independent energy producing partner GTI. An agreement was signed on Wednesday 7 April by the two parties, as reported by the daily Sud Quotidien. At a press conference on Monday 18 January 2010, M. Kane, the Director General…
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Senegal: 25 million USD for road infrastructure renovation project
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16 June 2011 Last weekend, work started on renovating the main highways in the region of Louga, Senegal, reports the newspaper Le Soleil. The Senegalese State has financed this program to the value of 25 million dollars. The works will consist of installing new asphalt pavements to cover all the degraded areas, explained Mr. Barry, one of the directors of the Sotracom company, which will carry out the works. The main routes concerned by this program are those of Louga-Ouarack-Dahra, Dahra-Linguère, Ouarack-Ndoyenne, Dahra-Touba, Louga-Potou and Louga-Keur Momar Sarr. "In 36 months, the poor condition…
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Senegal: Inauguration of a solar panel plant
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6 July 2011 A plant to manufacture photovoltaic panels has just been opened in Senegal. The minister for Renewable Energies inaugurated this factory on July 1 in Dakar. It was constructed by the Groupe Spec, which invested 8.8 million dollars in this solar energy production project, reports the newspaper La prospérité. "The production line corresponds to the best technology available in the world today, in the photovoltaic domain", said managing director of Spec, Mamadou Saliou Sow. The production capacity of the plant is 25 MW per year. Senegal, which benefits from 3,000 hours of sunshine per…
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Senegal: SENELEC receives 85 million dollars for reorganization plan
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13 July 2011 The National Electricity Company of Senegal (SENELEC) is to receive a loan of 85 million dollars from the French Development Agency (AFD). Last Monday, an agreement was signed in Dakar. This package is intended to partially finance the reorganization program of the energy sector, which aims to create the technical and financial conditions necessary to permanently resolve the problems which arise in the electricity sector, reports a press release from the AFD reported by the Xinhua press agency. Elsewhere, last Thursday in Abidjan, the West African Development Bank (BOAD) granted a loan…
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Senegal: Launch of a program to increase access to drinking water
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20 July 2011 A program to promote 19,100 social drinking water connections and a 100 km extension to the sanitation system was launched on July 12 in Senegal. It is being financed by the World Bank at a cost of 5 million dollars and will bring access to drinking water to a further 200,000 people in the regions of Saint-Louis, Matam, Tambacounda and Kédougou, reports the APS press agency.…
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Senegal: ABEDA grants over 10 million USD to supply the Saloum delta with drinking water
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27 April 2011 A 10.5 million dollar loan has been granted to Senegal by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA). It will contribute to the funding of a project for drinking water access in the Saloum delta region, reported the APS press agency last Friday. The aim of the project is to improve access to drinking water, contribute to a reduction in water-borne diseases, improve…
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Senegal: AFD to grant 50 million Euros to SENELEC
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3 May 2011 The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to provide a 50 million euro package to the Société nationale d'électricité sénégalaise (SENELEC) to renovate its generating plants. Dov Zerah, director of the Agence française de développement (AFD) announced the support for Senegal on April 15, which will help it to resolve its electricity problems, at the end of an audience…
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Senegal: BIDC finances water infrastructure project in Touba
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25 January 2011 The Senegalese government has announced the launch of a project to construct infrastructures for the transport and distribution of water in order to end the shortages affecting the re…
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Senegal: Sar signs two financial agreements
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6 September 2010 On Wednesday 1 September, the African Refining Company (Sar) signed a financial agreement in the amount of 80.4 million dollars with Ecobank and a second one for 380.5 million dollars…
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Senegal: Work starts on Diamniadio-Pikine highway
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16 February 2010 Work started on the second phase of the Dakar- Diamniadio toll highway on Friday 12 February, in the presence of the President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade. The highway, some thirty kilometres in length, is being financed to the amount of 664 million Dollars. The work which started on Friday involves the Diamniadio-Pikine stretch, according to the APS press agency. This transport infrastructure project is the first to see the light of day by way of a public-private partnership in sub-Saharan Africa. The State financed phase 1 of the work in its entirety, while phase 2 has been financed…