Senegalese MPs reject 2027 Mines budget of 7.4 billion CFA francs
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
The Finance Committee of Senegal’s Parliament rejected the 2027 draft budget of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, set at 7.4 billion CFA francs. Minister Cheikhou Oumar Seck defended a priority for mineral resource development, allocated 5.8 billion CFA francs, and 3.1 billion for investment, according to Seneweb.
The 2027 draft budget of Senegal’s Ministry of Mines and Geology, set at 7.4 billion CFA francs, was rejected on Wednesday by the relevant committee of the National Assembly. The Minister of Mines and Geology, Cheikhou Oumar Seck, defended the appropriations before the Finance and Budgetary Oversight Committee, expanded to include the Energy and Mineral Resources Committee, Seneweb reports.
The ministry plans to allocate 5.8 billion CFA francs, or 77.88% of the allocation, to mineral resource development. The steering, coordination and administrative management programme represents 1.6 billion CFA francs, while 3.1 billion CFA francs, or 41.6% of the draft budget, is to finance state-executed investments, according to Seneweb.
For artisanal gold mining, 31,020 people were registered biometrically in 2026 in the regions of Kédougou and Tambacounda. Seven pilot corridors are also being developed by the military engineering corps at a cost of 488.3 million CFA francs, to identify those involved and better regulate their activities, the minister said.
The rejection comes amid a series of reviews of Senegal’s 2027 budget by MPs. The Finance Committee had already rejected the Senegalese 2027 budget on 7 November, while MPs rejected the 2027 Foreign Affairs budget on 10 November and the 2027 Fisheries budget, worth 33.7 billion CFA francs, on 11 November. It also follows the rejection of the Senegalese supplementary budget, criticised by Oumar Youm on 24 October, and debates over a request to withdraw the ministry’s 2027 budget on 5 November. Finance Committee rejects Senegal’s 2027 budget
