BOAD supports Dakar Diamniadio Sports City project in Senegal
The Dakar Diamniadio Sports City project in Senegal will receive about $3.2 million from the West African Development Bank (BOAD) and more thn $2.9 million from the National Bank for Economic Development.
Upon completion, the project is set to be a major international standard sports centre in the region featuring multipurpose and specific buildings hosting tennis courts, running track, Olympic swimming pool, children’s playground, a fitness centre, sports health centre, multi-purpose gyms, two half-pitches for 7 vs. 7, combat gyms, a wellness area (spa, steam room), a football pitch which meets FIFA standards, a professional training centre, athlete residence building with 30 rooms, a gym with modular flooring, restaurants, and a four-star business hotel with 168 rooms.
The $3.2m BOAD grant is a part of a total of about $391 million approved during its 117th ordinary session.
This comprises over $219 million for eight development projects in Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Togo, Benin, and Senegal, as well as approximately $172 million of refinancing for lending institutions in the WAEMU framework.
Specifically, these funds will be used for irrigation programs in Mali, road and electric power projects in Cote d’Ivoire, a road project in Niger, a cross-border electric power project between Benin and Togo, and hotel/sports complex and agricultural projects in Senegal.
