{"id":6199,"date":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/news\/un-watercourses-convention\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:06:23","slug":"un-watercourses-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/fr\/news\/un-watercourses-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Watercourses Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">West Africa is a landscape marked with a significant number of international watercourses and therefore has a great potential for conflicts related to the management of shared water resources. States of the sub-region have become increasingly aware of this situation and are turning for collaborative management of the natural resources of the shared basins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <em>1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses<\/em> (UN Watercourses Convention), while not yet in force, is the most authoritative statement of international law in its field. Its adoption by States of the sub-region would provide many benefits, including supporting regions where no or few transboundary treaties exist; providing an identifiable framework for addressing allocation and re-allocation issues; a global mechanism for implementing, enforcing and developing international law in the field, particularly through the sharing of knowledge and experiences between countries and continents; platform for strengthening existing arrangements for the management of transboundary waters within the West African region and pave the way for water protocol for the region, etc.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As expected, the implementation of the programme for the ratification of the UN Convention by West African countries is not an easy task. Since the regional workshop held in 2007<sup> <\/sup>to raise awareness of the role and relevance of the Convention, many other actions were carried out by GWP\/WA and its partners. Up to now, five countries (<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guinea Bissau, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burkina Faso,&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigeria<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Benin <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and Niger <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">) have ratified the Convention. In Gambia the on-going advocacy for the ratification has raised strong interest as the process is really well on track and there is optimism for the achievement of the goal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Advocacy processes are <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">on-<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">going in Ghana, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and countries of OMVS such us Guinea, Mali and Senegal.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0West Africa\u00a0struggles for 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