Vain promises of jobs (Omar DIOUF’s post)
454 deaths and disappearances of migrants have been recorded as of October 26, 2026, since the start of the year on the West African Atlantic route.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in 2025, this same route had recorded 1,214 deaths or missing in 54 shipwrecks. Staggering figures to which are added the 39 deaths last Saturday, off the coast of Lompoul, in Senegal. A country where more than 60% of the population is under 25 years old.
Young people very often face a lack of jobs. An equation still unresolved for successive Senegalese governments. Our country is still struggling to build a system capable of “absorbing and promoting a large, mobile, connected, often educated but underemployed youth”. Giving a job to these thousands of young people, let us repeat, means stopping the exodus of a workforce rushing mainly towards Europe. But above all it is about respecting the electoral campaign promises.
