Senegal and Guinea Bissau set up a 26-member joint committee to iron out by 2025 the lingering border issues between the two countries. “It is a joint committee of twenty-six members that must carry out what is called reaffirmation of our borders,” said Vice-Admiral Ibrahima Wade, Chairman of Senegal’s National Border Management Commission. Both countries have been tangled in a border dispute created by former colonial powers namely France for Senegal and Portugal for Guinea Bissau. The two former colonial powers reportedly set up, 120 years ago, a joint committee that reached an agreement on the lay of the borders. For Ibrahima Wade, documentary research has enabled the establishment of border areas.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 24, 2023 13:16 UTC