Yesterday,

24 Heures, there were 250 new contaminations and 10 deaths were recorded.

(…) The curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. is still in force for a renewable month, throughout the regions of Dakar and Thiès.

Despite the state of emergency

Enquête, despite the curfew, despite all the measures that have been enacted, the virus continues to progress at high speed, to sow sick and dead wherever it goes. .

After 14 days of curfew, Senegal still counts its deaths which continue to increase.

(…) Almost a year since Senegal experienced its first confirmed patient.

23,000 cases and at least 500 deaths later,

Investigation, the denial of the disease still exists within society.

If the effectiveness of the awareness campaign against the spread of the pandemic led by the government authorities is often criticized, the results of the contribution of the involvement of religious, considered more influential than politicians and administrators, can also lend to many questions.

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despite calls from religious leaders to respect the health measures decreed by the Cell for the fight against Covid-19, the wearing of masks, social distancing and the cancellation of gatherings are not scrupulously respected by the majority of Senegalese.

Unless they are forced to do so by the presence of a dissuasive authority.

With Donald Trump's successor, American support for the development of Africa should resume,

It is also predicted that threats of withdrawal of US troops involved in particular in hunting down terrorists in the Sahel could be suspended.

That African human rights activists and pro-democracy activists could find more attentive ears to their pleas within the Biden administration… In short, between Africa and America, everything should change,

Ledjely

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Of course, all of these predictions are legitimate and relevant.

But before this more concrete step, what could change and what justifies Africa to rejoice at the departure of Donald Trump is the demeaning perception that the latter had of the African continent. 

"a lot of sacrifice and sometimes even depression 

Le Monde Afrique

“this second year student in a scientific preparatory class at the prestigious Parisian high school Louis-le-Grand, who has not given any sign of life since January 4.

Two weeks later, the mystery has not been completely cleared up, even if sources close to the investigation indicated that the trail of voluntary disappearance was preferred.

(...) For the Senegalese students,

World Africa, the scholarship of excellence seems sesame perfect.

But often, "it is at the cost of a lot of sacrifice, depression and burnout",

To listen to scholarship holders, this endowment leads to an accumulation of stress.

A psychological torment that they began to express thanks to the disappearance of Diary Sow.

"The shock is immense, affirms another Senegalese student. We are with very very brilliant comrades. When we receive our first grades, we say to ourselves that we are not as good as that. It's another world" .

"You come to say to yourself that you suck,"

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"You feel like you can never do enough. Due to the pressure of grades, mental health is weakened."

Added to this is the anxiety of losing his pension

Le Monde Afrique.

Because to keep this scholarship throughout the five years of study, you must not repeat your first year and succeed in entering a major school at the end of the preparation

some Senegalese scholarship holders have asked the authorities to relax the criteria for awarding the scholarship: open it to universities, take into account the desires of students, explain more upstream the preparatory class system for large schools and have better support, especially psychological.