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On 4 and 5 May, a meeting organised by the municipality of Bakel (Senegal) between forty mayors from Senegal, Mali and Mauritania, led to the creation of the Network of Mayors of Municipalities Bordering the Senegal River.
The objective: promote cooperation between local authorities located on either side of the river. The “Bakel declaration” signed at the meeting proclaims the founding of the Network on the basis of main guiding principles: the recognition of freedom of movement as a universal right, the importance of cross-border cooperation as a factor of social peace, the essential role that can be played by territorial authorities. The Network has received the support of the Organisation for Developing the Senegal River (OMVS) and it will out its procedures of operation at the beginning of July.
For further information, go to the site of the association GRDR.