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SENEGAL – Mayors Yewwi Askan Wi open up to international cooperation

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Mayors Yewwi Askan Wi from the Thiès region took a trip as part of their work as elected officials. Their goal is to open up to international cooperation. It was in the city of Montargis that they spent more than a week from February 28 to March 8, 2023. The delegation is composed of Ousmane Diagne, Mayor of the Commune of Thiès-Est; Birane Souleye Diop, Mayor of the Commune of Thiès-Nord, Madame Hélène Tine former partner, former deputy parliamentarian to the Mayor of Thiès-Nord and the city of Thiès; Ndiogou Ndiaye Deputy Mayor of Thiès-Ouest and finally Mamadou Djité Mayor of the Municipality of Thiès-Est. Ze-Africanews went to meet them in this exclusive interview.

In this interview, the mayor Ousmane Diagne first of all wished to thank Ayouba Sow President of the association Caridad, who organized this important meeting between the mayors Yewwi Askan Wi and the authorities of the city of Montargis in France. Ayouba Sow affectionately called Aya is a French of Senegalese origin native of Thiès, a region located 70 kilometers from Dakar. He is the Founding President of the Association Caridad and Head of Operations. Since his hometown of Thiés, Ayouba Sow had begun to invest in social work with an association called “Mouvement des Jeunes Thiessois” where he worked for the development of youth. The creation of the association Caridad du Gâtinais is indeed a continuation of what he was already doing in his hometown.

This visit of the 5 mayors, allowed them to meet many personalities of the Montargoise agglomeration: Jean-Paul Billault, the president; the mayor of Montargis, Benoît Digeon; Jean-Pierre Door, former deputy; Philippe Moreau mayor of Nogent-on-Vernisson; Deputy Mayor Atif Khalid de Châlette-sur-Loing who is also in charge of the division in charge of monitoring international relations. They also had the opportunity to meet with Jean-Luc Davigo, director of Amélie’s hospital. Discussions focused on three priority sectors: education, health and the environment.

Ayouba Sow et Ousmane Diagne

Following the meeting with the Director of the Centre hospitalier de l’agglomération montargoise (CHAM) Jean-Luc Davigo, prospects for future collaboration, particularly in the field of training, were discussed. They plan to send Senegalese doctors from Thiés who can train. During the meeting with the Mayor of Noguet, They also thought of a collaboration in the field of education especially since there was an agricultural high school in Noguet, agriculture being an extremely important sector in Senegal. They would like to send young Senegalese to train in the agricultural high school of Noguet as well as in the mechanical sector, many facilities to improve the living environment of the Thiéssois were also visited. The mayors Yewwi Askan Wi de Thiès would like once in Senegal to put this experience to the benefit of their respective populations even if the population density is not the same.

Ayouba Sow et Le maire Biram Souleye Diop

After a year at the head of his municipality, the mayor Ousmane Diagne, welcomes the achievements that have been made at the level of the city of Thiès which has been completely transformed in any way, within the framework of electrification, the development of green spaces, equipment and construction of health centres and classroom equipment, renovations to health stations and classrooms.

According to Mayor Ousmane Diagne, a project to build social housing to meet the needs of the population will soon see the light of day in Thiès. The mayor thus calls for solidarity and openness due to globalization in order to seal lasting collaborations between regions and countries. Once they return, they will report on the contours of their trip. At the end of this interview, the mayor of Thiès thanked the authorities of Montargis warmly and also intends to invite him to Thiès.

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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:

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