Senegal: biometric populate database will facilitate deportations, restricted EU document confirms 14 April 2021 The completion of a national biometric population database in Senegal would facilitate the forced removal of more Senegalese citizens from the EU by allowing for a “consolidated” identification procedure, according to a restricted European Commission document obtained by Statewatch. Cooperation on readmission The document, an assessment of 39 different countries’ level of cooperation with EU return and readmission procedures, sets out obstacles faced by member states’ authorities when trying to remove individuals who have been handed a deportation order by national authorities. Senegal ranks 16 th amongst those countries, says the document, with 8,010 Senegalese nationals ordered to leave EU territory in 2019. Eight member states represent half of those removal orders and report “satisfactory results” when seeking assistance from Senegalese authorities in confirming the identity of would-be deportees.