Guinea authorities join collection of waste exercise

By Hauwa Ali

Guinea government, head of the military junta in power, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, has mandated all members of his government to take part in the operation of collecting the waste that is piling up in the councils of Kaloum, Dixinn, Ratoma, Matoto and the island of Kassa, in the capital Conakry.

The initiative, which is part of an ongoing improvised citizens’ sanitation initiative in Conakry, the country’s capital, will help reduce pollution in the West African country.


While Guinea produces an average of 485,000 tons of plastic waste per year, the operation is mainly aimed at collecting the waste that is piling up in the councils of Kaloum, Dixinn, Ratoma, Matoto and the island of Kassa, in the capital Conakry.

Thus, Yaya Sow, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Ousmane Gaoual Diallo, the Minister of Urbanism and Housing, as well as Abé Sylla in charge of Energy, Hydraulics and Hydrocarbons, led a delegation for the collection of household waste in the municipality of Dixinn composed of 22 districts.


In the inter-ministerial procession of this waste collection initiative in Conakry, were also the Ministries of Environment and Sustainable Development, Hygiene and Health, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mines and Geology.

“This decision to interrupt the Council of Ministers allowed ministers and senior state officials to go and clean up the city to return to normal,” said transitional Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui, who is also in charge of coordinating the implementation of the Conakry City Sanitation Project.


The Conakry Sanitation Project is in full swing and the authorities say it will allow the supply of 20,000 200-litre waste bins, the construction of 56 km of primary, secondary and tertiary reinforced concrete canals for the drainage of rainwater and wastewater and the rehabilitation of two drainage stations.

It will also extend the capacity of the sludge treatment plants at the Yimbaya and Sonfonia sites.