Charné Hundermark, Southern and East Africa Editor
April 8, 2021
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The government of Senegal aims to provide all citizens with access to affordable and reliable electricity by the year 2025. The objective forms part of the Emerging Senegal Plan, a development model that is focused on accelerating the country’s progress toward emerging market status.
Senegal boasts one of the highest access to electricity rates in West Africa, equating to 76% at the end of 2019. However, the rural and urban population’s access rates remain significantly disparate, with rates currently at 94% and 53.9%, respectively.
“These inequalities are likely to impact the efforts of the State for a balanced development of the territory and, more generally, hamper economic and social development at the national level,” the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in said in a press release.