Volunteers clean up the city of Dakar
By People Daily, February 3, 2020After Senegalese President Macky Sall was re-elected in 2019, he promised to end anarchy and dirtiness in public spaces across the country. Almost a year later, he launched the “A Clean Senegal” and “Zero waste” operation for all the 14 regions of the country on January 4th, 2020.
The cleaning operation is a priority of his second term, as he stated in April 2019 in his inauguration speech, promising vigorous measures to cleanse the country without delay.
He called for a general mobilization to forge the image of a new Senegal, a Senegal cleaner in its neighborhoods, cleaner in its villages, cleaner in its cities.
For the “Cleaning Days”, according to the government, citizens should come out on a voluntary base every first Saturday of the month to clean their neighborhoods, remove the trash and reorganize the public space in their own cities or towns.
Similar operations already exist in several other African countries, such as Tunisia, Cameroon and Rwanda.