The drop in the price of the most consumed products was the most awaited announcement by the Senegalese since Bassirou Diomaye Faye came to power. The young president had promised to tackle the cost of living in his inauguration speech. His Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko too. The first measures were announced this Thursday, June 13 for everyday consumer products such as rice, oil and bread.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
50 CFA francs less for the kilo of sugar, 40 CFA francs less for broken rice, the most common variety consumed in Senegal but also a reduction of 100 CFA francs on the five-liter can of sunflower oil and 15 CFA francs less on the price of the baguette… “ These are small drops », conceded the secretary general of the government Ahmadou Al Aminou Lô, who made these announcements while recalling that the room for maneuver for the Senegal is very weak. Global inflation has an impact on the price of these products, which are largely imported.
For economist Magaye Guaye, this is a first step in the right direction. “ Symbolically, it is a very strong measure which will allow the Senegalese to breathe. In terms of democratic promises, it has been promised. There is a beginning. Now we want more than that. And I believe that these are structural measures which can actually make it possible to do so.. »
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