(Ecofin Agency) - Senegal is considering helping Gambia face the power crisis which it currently experiences. SENELEC, Senegal’s power utility is currently looking at exporting its power surplus to Gambia, the country’s minister of power, Thierno Alassane Sall, said.

“As we speak, we have an excess output of 200MW which is not being used. We even negotiated with a neighboring country (Mali, editor’s note) to which will be sold 20MW. And there is another neighbor which is landlocked and just comes out of a crisis. We are looking at how to provide it more power,” the minister said.

The power crisis which Gambia currently faces threatens even drinking water supply to its populations. A situation which is quite hard to deal with, especially since its populations, mostly Muslims, are in the Lenten season.

Gwladys Johnson