Questioned among other subjects on the Jakartamen front, following the decision of the authorities to register two-wheeled motorcycles and on the ANSD report. This report, it should be mentioned, published this week on the expanded unemployment rate, rose from 21.5% in the first quarter of 2023 to 23.2% over the same period in 2024, an increase of 11.7 points. percentage. The former Minister of Youth, Employment and Entrepreneurship under Macky Sall first recognized that “employment is not an easy thing” before adding that, “the statistics of employment pose a lot of problems”, not without “recognizing that we have a more or less informal economy, marked by the omnipresence of activities which are not always monitored by the statistical institutions of our country”.
According to the Economist, “there is indeed a drop in employment, normally salaried. And this decline does not surprise us because we have seen recently how the economy is behaving which is today in decline, the activity in any case.”
According to Malick Ndour, Macky Sall’s regime has invested in reducing youth unemployment by creating jobs, particularly with the establishment of the Xeuyou ndaw yi program. Efforts that, according to him, the current regime is in the process of reducing to nothing. “We worked a lot first on the employability of young people by repositioning vocational training at a level such that it is today, what it has become, that must be done. recognize, a lot of efforts have been made, within the framework of employment through professional training, other initiatives also, to promote the entrepreneur have been made today, with, the program which has brought solutions, but unfortunately we see that the government The current system is in the process of dismantling all the good measures that the State has had to bring so far. The Xeuyou ndaw yi program, today, is almost no longer a reality. And that saddens us because we were able to see the situation of precariousness that young people today are faced with, even though these were the solutions that we had been able to find until then.”
“The State of Senegal, perhaps, will provide other solutions. Employment issues are structural issues. We cannot solve it overnight, the main thing is to have confidence and we hope that the new leaders of this country will look into it definitively. Because until now, we have not yet seen any concrete actions, in any case strong measures undertaken by this new regime and I think that it is time now, almost a year after their arrival. to definitely look into this,” he said.
