{"id":5655,"date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/news\/a-new-authority-to-manage-the-comoe-bia-and-tanoe-river-basins\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:05:10","slug":"a-new-authority-to-manage-the-comoe-bia-and-tanoe-river-basins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/news\/a-new-authority-to-manage-the-comoe-bia-and-tanoe-river-basins\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Authority to manage the Como\u00e9-Bia and Tano\u00e9 River basins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Council of Ministers held in Abidjan on 27 April 2018 officially adopted the draft roadmap for the effective implementation of the Como\u00e9-Bia-Tano\u00e9 Basin Authority (CBTBA). C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire has been selected as the country to host the headquarters of the ABCBT and the Ivorian Minister, Richard Alain Donwahi, holds the interim chairmanship of the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/04\/abcbt.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"640\">The technical committee of experts of the Como\u00e9-Bia-Tano\u00e9 Basin Authority (Abcbt) met on 25 and 26 April to mark out the ground for the Ministers&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held in the presence of the GWP WA chair, Professor Amadou Hama MAIGA who explained that GWP has always accompanied ECOWAS in all its initiatives for the promotion of IWRM in the region. 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