The threats come from the regional body SOGEM, which issued a warning to the Malian state energy company to make the payments.

According to specialists, the Manantali dam has an installed capacity of 200 megawatts and sends energy also to Senegal and Mauritania. The installations are co-financed by the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River.

This situation affects a country with a serious economic crisis and also plunged by the military junta that governs this nation in the recent suspension, for the second time in less than a year, of all political activities .

According to a decree published in the Official Gazette, the measure also extends to associations and organizations identified with a political character, whose activities are also paralyzed as long as the suspension remains in force, local sources pointed out.

On the other hand, Mali, like several Sahel countries, including Burkina Faso and Niger, is fighting armed groups trying to expand the Islamist insurgency into West African states.

Together with Niger and Burkina Faso, Mali founded the Alliance of Sahel States after requesting the departure of the troops of France, former colonial metropolis that was installed in its territories.

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