“It is with regret that we note, in recent days, scuffles between the population of Diass and the forces of order. This unfortunate situation has become commonplace in Senegal. The cause is a land management that sidelines a population that is subject to land grabbing from all sides,” said the Executive Director of the Pan African Institute for Citizenship, Consumers and Development (CICODEV) Amadou Kanouté.
Through a statement received on Monday, September 20, he argued that in its entirety, the town of Diass knows an exponential land aggression, often led by projects and state programs. “It is so, for example, the airport of Diass sitting on a land base of 4 500 hectares, the Special Industrial Economic Zone (No. 2) with an area of 10 000 hectares, the port of Ndayane occupying 400 hectares belonging to the municipality of Diass, the factory of large carriers of 100 hectares, the urban pole