Gambia River Development Organization

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The Gambia River Development Organization is known in French as the Organization pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Gambie (OMVG), which means something in German: "Organization for the development of the Gambia River". It is an intergovernmental organization that was founded in 1978 by the West African states of Gambia and Senegal with the aim of planning the development of the Gambia River as a natural resource.

In 1980 Guinea joined this organization . Guinea-Bissau , itself not a riparian state of the Gambia, is a member state due to the catchment area of 114,000 km² of the river, which extends to the north of Guinea-Bissau.

Projects

Bridge building

OMVG has been commissioned to advance the development of the traffic routes in Gambia for the benefit of both countries (Gambia and Senegal). The largest planning project in the past was a dam bridge construction over the Gambia, which was to replace the car ferry between Farafenni and Soma . The planning for the bridge began in 1994, but has not come out of the project status since 1996.

When the conflict with Senegal arose in August 2005 due to the transit traffic on the Trans-Gambia Highway and the dialogue was resumed as a result, the bridge construction project was once again placed in the foreground. The planning phase should be completed in May 2007 and it was hoped that construction would then begin. Justino Vieira, Executive Secretary of OMVG, estimated the cost to be 21 billion CFA francs (around 32 million euros).

The plans include a 942 meter long bridge . The 70 meter wide concrete structure is to be built 16.50 meters above the river to allow ocean- going cargo ships to pass. The access roads to the bridge must also be expanded by 15.7 km. Various modes of operation were checked, including with regard to tolls .

On January 21, 2019, the bridge was opened to traffic under the name Senegambia Bridge .

power supply

On February 4, 2017, the OMVG High Commissioner in Kaléta, Guinea, decided on an ambitious energy project in the four member states for the purpose of integrated development and rational use of the hydroelectric potential of the catchment areas of the Gambia, Kayanga Géba and Koliba-Corubal rivers. This project envisages the construction of a network network of the power grids of the four member states and a hydropower plant in Senegal.

Specifically, the construction of 1,677 km of 225 kV high-voltage lines and 15 substations in the four countries is planned. In the Gambia near Sambangalou in the Senegalese region of Kédougou , where the river crosses the Dindéfelo highlands in a valley , a dam and a hydropower plant with a capacity of 128 MW, which can produce 402 GWH of electricity per year, are to be built. A reservoir of 181 km² on the border between Senegal and Guinea is to be created, which will reduce the risk of flooding downstream and provide opportunities for irrigation of 90,000 hectares of agricultural land, of which 50,000 hectares in Gambia and 40,000 hectares in Senegal.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quatre États africains pour un même combat École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  2. ↑ www.Seneweb.com: Construction d'un pont sur le fleuve Gambie: L'Omvg comptedé marrer le projet en mai 2007 au plus tard ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Rosel Jahn: Gambia: travel guide with regional studies; with a travel atlas . Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4

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