Senegal to cancel €700m contract with Saudi firm

On Thursday, it was confirmed that the Saudi desalination project would be the first significant foreign agreement to be canceled since President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s inauguration in March.

The new Senegalese president had promised to examine and perhaps revoke agreements made by former president; Macky Sall whom he charged with undermining national sovereignty by selling off public assets for cheap.

According to a report by Sputnik; the project which was signed between Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power and Senegal’s state water company SONES is one of the country’s largest private investments, and was intended to provide an estimated 400,000 cubic meters of water for the country’s capital city; Dakar.