While they represent 55% of the 17 million population, these young people feel neglected by authorities. The state should review public policies, especially public policies for young people. And young people need three main things: training, employment, and support. The youth need funding, and capacity building because we the youth need to be occupied. But if the youth have no occupation, it only takes one thing at all for them to rebel , Yves Nzalé, Coordinator of the Group of Unemployed Graduates of Senegal told our Correspondent, Wahany Jonhson-Sambou.
Yet the state still boasts of having injected hundreds of billions of CFA francs to tackle unemployment.
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Protests ignite in Senegal
Protests continued in Senegal on March 8 as a leading opposition politician faced charges of sexual assault.
Updated: 09/03/2021, 8:12 am
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Protests continued in Senegal on March 8 as a leading opposition politician faced charges of sexual assault.
The arrest of Ousmane Sonko, a former tax collector and leader of Pastef-Les Patriotes, on March 3 triggered an outbreak of violence. Clashes between protestors and security forces left at least eight people dead.