Illustration billet d'humour — Aides Tabaski, guichets de survie au Sénégal
In Senegal, poverty no longer knocks on the door. It has firmly taken root in the queues. As Tabaski approaches, town halls transform into veritable scenes of social pilgrimage, where thousands of citizens come to request aid that has become almost ritualistic.
At the Léopold Sédar Senghor Cultural Complex in Pikine, the crowd was so large that authorities had to mobilize the police and the GMI (Mobile Intervention Group) to contain the human tide that had already gathered before dawn. Some people are not returning home; they are sleeping there, convinced that hope follows the order of arrival.
The scene resembles a social lottery. Except the ticket is free, and the loss is already known. Town halls become survival hubs, and citizenship a waiting ticket.
The police draw up barriers like one draws borders between dignity and necessity.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, another crowd had already rehearsed the same tragic choreography: the young people gathered in front of a cosmetics company, "Diodio Glow Skin," believing that a TikTok click could open doors to employment. There too, the same scenario: massive hope, narrow reality, collective disappointment.
Unemployment no longer needs statistics to exist; it has viral images.
Yet the figures speak volumes, revealing the cold truths of a reality no one listens to anymore. A widespread unemployment rate hovering around 20%. Training programs are on the rise, but job opportunities are stagnant.
A youth that is qualified on paper, but suspended in the queue of reality.
And in this country where talk about the future is always ahead of the present, the "gorgorlou" remains faithful to his post: standing, bent by prices, crushed by emergencies, but always on minimum survival service.
Politicians debate trajectories, while daily life knows only one direction: to hold on a little longer.
Massamba NDAO
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