Fishmongers THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE, JANUARY 15 as Fishmongers threaten strike 15 January 2020!

The National Union of Fishmongers of Senegal "And Defarat Sunu ligguey" is about to stop, for 72 hours, any service related to the supply of Senegalese fish markets, starting next January 15, if from here this date no solution is brought to their claims.
 
In other words, fishmongers demanding better working conditions. They therefore ask the authorities to reconsider their decision and measure which encourage refrigerated vehicles to pass by force over the weighbridges, with easily perishable products. The National Organization of Fishmongers made the decision the day before yesterday, on the sidelines of a general meeting to renew its office, held in Kaolack in the presence of representatives from at least 10 regions of the country.

Fishmongers threaten strike 15 January 2020

Despite their decision to renew the office installed seven (7) months before, the Senegalese wholesalers seem to be more concerned about some odd numbers that have hampered their routine activities. Because, beyond even the obligations to go through the weighing points which have no way of being able to exercise this kind of road control (lack of refrigerated rooms or means of recharging the ice in the event of a merger), the Union nationale des mareyeurs also deplored the high cost of professional cards / wholesalers set at 30,000 CFA francs and renewable each year. While, on the other hand, import / export cards and other similar media are set at 20,000 CFA Francs for a validity period of four (4) years.
 
There is also the issue of fish markets in Senegal. The comrades of President Pope Ibrahima Diaw believe, in fact, that out of the 14 regions of the country, only three (3) fish markets are functional and are still far from meeting the demand for fishery resources.

After the announcement of his rehabilitation by the President of the Republic, on December 31, the Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Opening up, Oumar Youm, and the Secretary of State in charge of the rail network, Mayacine Camara, launched in Dakar yesterday, Thursday, January 9, 2020, the national policy for the rehabilitation of the Dakar-Bamako railway. Through a workshop which aimed to diagnose inter-regional and intercontinental rail routes.
 
The Minister of Infrastructure, Oumar Youm, and the Secretary of State responsible for the rail network, Mayacine Camara, organized a technical validation workshop for railway policy yesterday, Thursday January 9, 2020, in Dakar. At the center of the meeting, the concern to give rail transport a face of modernity and efficiency as well as to materialize commitments with respect to international treaties, through a vast program of improvement and modernization of railway infrastructures.
 
However, Minister Youm stressed that rail transport is a very important aspect in the economic policy of a country: "rail transport is secure transport, comfortable transport, modern transport, less polluting transport but also a less expensive transport. This will complement the provisions that have been taken at the Dakar Autonomous Port ... We believe that the railroad can be a good union train to succeed in this policy, not only of commercial logistics, in a context of free exchange but also in a competitive context attractiveness of territories. "
 
 In the process, Oumar Youm confides: “a letter of railway policy will be given to the President of the Republic, and will be presented to the government of Senegal with all the actors who will be concerned and the technical and financial partners. The passage of the project will be carried out and we think we will get there with the contribution of operators and people interested in the deployment of rail transport ”.
 
Before indicating that the workshop is part of the rehabilitation and provides a clear roadmap on all projects and programs resulting from the railway policy. He added that they are in a very active phase of the financing that the World Bank is providing to Mali (Bamako) for the revival of railway activities from Dakar to Bamako.
 
For the secretary of state responsible for the rail network, this rail policy is an approach of social, environmental and economic profitability. "All the lines that have been proposed are justified by an economic need, a need for transport and this has enabled us to meet all the sectors of activity, industrial, commercial. We were able to identify all the needs. We expect this policy to have a strong economic impact ”.