The news is in the news. Guinea has again announced the suspension of its participation in the OMVS, which it first joined in 1963. Among the reasons cited by Conakry, underrepresentation and delay in the implementation of certain joint projects.
Guinea is no longer a member of the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River. The decision was communicated on 19 July 2023 after the 19th Ordinary Session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the organization in which President Mamady Doumbouya took part videoconference.
At the end of the 19th ordinary session of the Conference, the highest Guinean authorities have noted with regret that the strategic concerns and interests of the Republic of Guinea’s participation in the OMVS have still not been taken into account by the organization since its creation.”
The country denounces “the considerable delay and lack of serious mobilization of funding for the Koukoutamba hydroelectric dam (which must be located on its territory, editor’s note.) and its under-representation both in the staff and in the decision-making bodies of the OMVS”. In addition, the government spokesman, Ousmane Gaoual Diallo, explained that it was impossible to invest and subscribe to shares on Thursday 20 July.
Denouncing an injustice, the Guinean executive has indicated that he is now going it alone, and that he plans to resize the Koukoutamba dam, a joint project whose construction was entrusted in 2019 to the Chinese Sinohydro for a budget of 812 million USD. The objective of the infrastructure was to share the energy produced between the four electricity companies of the OMVS member countries.
