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SENEGAL – Illegal emigration to Senegal: Macky Sall calls on the Government to intensify controls at departure areas

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Following the recent accidents at sea, Senegalese President Macky Sall offered his saddest condolences to the grieving families, on this painful occasion on the margins of the Council of Ministers, on Thursday, July 20, 2023.

In this context, the Head of State asked the Government to intensify the controls at the level of potential starting areas and sites, but also to deploy all monitoring devices, awareness-raising and support for young people through the strengthening of multi-sectoral public actions to combat illegal emigration,” reads the statement issued by the Council of Ministers on Thursday, 20 July 2023.
As a reminder, a pirogue, with 82 candidates on board for irregular migration, was rescued by the Spanish navy on the night of Tuesday, July 18, 2023 around 11 pm. D’Adhara salvamar’s crew assisted the boat disembarked at the Restinga.

These 79 men and 3 women migrants are all Senegalese who had left Senegal to reach Spain by sea. In a Tweet, Salvamento Maritimo informs that “the search was coordinated by CCS Tenerife, the Helimer 201 aircraft and the Sesmar 101 aircraft”.

A capsizing of a canoe in the breach of Saint-Louis (north) was noted last week, another sinking was reported on the Moroccan coast, precisely off the town of Dakhla. Among the victims, 8 young people living in Rufisque, this Sunday, July 16, 2023.
The latter, from Thiawlene, a fishing district, wanted to return to Europe by sea.

The tragedy occurred a few weeks ago, off the Mediterranean, with on board about forty young people from the department of Rufisque.

They set sail on Tuesday, July 4, in Mbour. However, the dream of these migrants to set foot on Spanish soil will break in Morocco. Originally, there was an accident that saw their boat hit a reef, before it shattered.

The provisional assessment listed on Sunday, July 16, 2023, in the Thiawlene neighborhood reported 8 dead and an undetermined number of seriously injured detained in a makeshift camp in Dakhla.

Daouda Ndoye, spokesman for the families of the victims spoke on the airwaves of the Rfm. He appealed to the authorities: I insist on the situation of the survivors who are in the hospitals in Dakhla. They need emergency assistance. If not, there will be more deaths. We call on the government to repatriate them as soon as possible. They are young people whose parents, through taxes and other means, contribute to the development of this country and are entitled to assistance.”

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SENEGAL – Harassment, food tampering, communication ban: the Diomaye Coalition President alert on the conditions of detention of his candidate

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Bassirou Diomay Faye

The Diomaye Coalition President warns about the conditions of detention of candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The members of the said coalition inform that his visiting days have been changed and he can only receive visits on Tuesdays and Wednesdays within the Court. He is also prohibited from telephone communications. The Diomaye Président coalition denounces this relentlessness against its candidate and holds the regime responsible for any attack on the physical or moral integrity of their candidate.

“Following the official launch of the Diomaye President Coalition and the massive adhesions of opposition leaders, it was expected that the government in power would reinstate the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye in his rights, particularly in the context of a presidential election of which he is undoubtedly the favourite,” reads a statement.

However, the Coalition announces that the Prison Administration, under the responsibility of the Minister of Justice, has decided to unilaterally and without justification tighten the conditions of detention of candidate Bassirou Diomaye FAYE by:

“A unilateral modification of his visiting days now, the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye can only receive visits on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and this within the Court itself. A ban on telephone communications under the pretext that the favorite candidate in the presidential election whose campaign begins in two days has conversations whose purpose is political. A continuous harassment of the room of the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye is now searched at every turn.”

Moreover, she notes a «lack of security measures despite her status as a candidate in the presidential election of February 25, 2024 and multiple alerts on probable alterations of the food served to her. Candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye no longer has breakfast.”
The Diomaye President coalition denounces this relentlessness against its candidate. “We strongly denounce this umpteenth violation of the principle of equality between candidates in the presidential election of February 25, 2024. We call for the immediate release of Bassirou Diomaye Faye to actively participate in the election campaign.”

In any case, she stresses, «the State of Senegal has the responsibility to ensure its protection if it unjustly decides to maintain it in the bonds of detention».

In short, the Diomaye Coalition President indicates that «Macky Sall, Aissata Tall Sall and Amadou Ba will be held responsible for any attack on the physical or moral integrity of the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye».

Source : PressAfrik

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SENEGAL – 100.000 Housing: Ismaila Madior Fall á Bambilor for the inauguration

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This Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese from outside, Ismaila Madior Fall, accompanied by Minister Annette Ndiaye Seck, will inaugurate the “City of the Diaspora” in Bambilor. This project aims to prevent the creation of new slums and encourage the mass production of accessible housing.

According to the Observer, the aim is to boost and diversify the supply of housing for low-income and/or irregular households, while facilitating access to adapted bank financing. With a clear vision of strengthening the construction ecosystem, this initiative demonstrates the commitment of the Senegalese government to its diaspora.

The 100,000 units planned in this project were developed in partnership with the Senegalese government and its collaborators, seeking to meet the specific housing needs and concerns of Senegalese living abroad.

Source: PressAfrik

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SENEGAL – Thione Niang “I have no program, I have a vision”

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Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews

Social entrepreneur Thione Niang is a candidate in the February 2024 election. In this exclusive interview, he reveals his vision, his projects in particular, “Give One project”, “JeufZone” which includes an agricultural component, training but also women’s empowerment. 

It was an opportunity for the social entrepreneur to look back on his beginnings, on the process of returning to his country of origin, Senegal. He addressed the political question: his involvement in the political ring while giving his opinion on the Senegalese political landscape. 

African politics is another aspect of this interview. The urgency of the industrialization of the continent, the urgency of helping African youth so that they have the same opportunities for development as other young people in the world, is close to his heart. 

On the question of the African school, Thione Niang proposes a redesign of it, starting with a paradigm shift and especially the content of the teachings. According to him, we must return to our fundamentals, namely our own models of identity representations, notably Cheikh Anta Diop or Nkrumah. 

Thione Niang, also told us about vision, his vision and not a program, to give each Senegalese what he deserves both in terms of education, health, but also on the development of infrastructure, which, according to him, necessarily passes first and foremost through food self-sufficiency, hence his return to the land for an assertive agricultural progress.

He ended up sending a strong message to all Senegalese.

The rest of the interview on this link:

Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
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