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Cash-Strapped Senegalese Unmoved by Youth Olympic Games

The promise of the first Olympic event ever hosted on African soil is not necessarily felt by the likes of street vendors and mechanics, who told AFP the money spent preparing for the Games could have been put to better use. Senegal will host the Youth Olympic Games from October 31 to November 13, but with just a month to go, many Dakar residents say they have other priorities. While the Games are being billed as historic, Arame Diop, who was sh…

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Employment, cost of living or income: one month before the start of the first Olympic event in Africa in crisis in this country, the emergencies are elsewhere, for many of the inhabitants interviewed by the AFP. Coming to buy clothes for his children, Arame Diop, 34, does not feed any particular expectation of this event presented as historical. "With all the difficulties the country is currently experiencing, I don't think this is the priority …

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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