Press releases - 2026 April 20
On the sidelines of the 10th edition of the International Dakar Forum on Peace and Security in Africa, Senegal and Sierra Leone signed today a Cooperation Treaty in the fields of Mining and Energy, under the high patronage of H.E. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone and current Chair of ECOWAS.
The Treaty was initialed on behalf of Senegal by H.E. Cheikh Niang, Minister of African Integration, Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, and on behalf of Sierra Leone by H.E. Julius Daniel Mattai, Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources.
This agreement gives concrete expression to the vision articulated earlier today by the Head of State at the Forum: to make the governance of energy and mineral resources a driver of structural transformation and shared sovereignty. By joining forces in two strategic sectors for their development, Dakar and Freetown are opening a new chapter in bilateral cooperation, in the service of an Africa that takes ownership of the development and valorization of its own resources.
