According to the National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD), half of the Senegalese population was under 19 in 2023. A youth without prospects who are fleeing en masse to Europe and North America with the hope of finding a better future. In 2023, nearly 40,000 migrants, 60% of whom were Senegalese, arriv in the Canary Islands in Spain, the European territory closest to the Senegalese coast, according to El País. At the same time, nearly 6,600 people lost their lives attempting this same journey, according to the NGO Camino Sin Fronteras for Infomigrants.
Despite several arrests for corrupting youth
or “disturbing public order”, Ousmane Sonko, 49, has manag to become the voice of this youth both inside and outside the country’s borders. In 2020, around 700,000 Senegalese emigrants liv throughout the world according to the OECD, a large proportion of them in Europe (France, Italy, Spain).
Rally organiz by PASTEF France on Place de la République (Paris), March 16, 2024. ©DarioNadal
“As a Senegalese diaspora, we want total change for our thailand phone number library country,” says Fatima, who has liv in France for 22 years. “Sonko defends all of Senegal, including the diaspora. Young people don’t have jobs, so we are forc to expatriate, even though we have a lot of resources.” A resident of Noisy-le-Sec in the 93, she donn her Lions of Téranga jersey to take part in a demonstration organiz in Paris by the French section of PASTEF, the party of candidate Diomaye Faye.
All our resources are being plunder we have become
poorer since Macky Sall became president,” says Maj Buur Ngalam, a chef de partie in a cybersecurity: ncsc becomes a feral office on 1 january 2024 Parisian restaurant for the past five years. Originally from Dakar, she says she previously support the Alliance pour la République or APR, the current president’s party. The country is known for its 700 km of coastline, which is reput to be rich in fish. But the massive presence of industrial fishing vessels atb directory since 2014, the year agreements were sign with the European Union, has had a major impact on local artisanal fishing.
This “grabbing” of resources by large international firms is a key argument of PASTEF, which advocates in particular a move away from France and calls for the end of the CFA Franc.