Ivory Coast joined the UN Water Convention as the 10th African country.
Ivory Coast has become the 10th African country to join the United Nations Water Convention.
Ivory Coast has joined the convention to enhance cooperative water management.
It has also become the 53rd Party (country) of the 1992 UN Water Convention, which is also known as the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
This convention was established as a regional framework for the pan-European region.
Under this convention, countries are required to cooperate for the sustainable management of transboundary waters.
Ivory Coast is considered as the 40th “water insecure country in the continent”.
Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe are in the final stages of accession and joining the convention.
