In an interview with Mediapart, economist and coordinator of the World Forum for Alternatives Chérif Salif Sy talks about the riots that left eleven dead in Senegal in early March.

According to Chérif Salif Sy, the difference between the crises and uprisings of early March and previous years is that all segments of society took to the streets: those who feel marginalized, very little respected by those in power and who denounce this arrogance ; people locked up for a year and who saw an opportunity to breathe; organized crime that took advantage of it to settle scores...
“It was a mixture of amounts of frustrations that last over time. Personally, I think that young people in Africa can no longer stand up to the profound determination from the outside of their living conditions,” he explains.
He specifies that for changes that truly serve the people, we need an alternative social project to the neoliberalism that governs us. Because it is neoliberalism backed by capitalism that is in crisis across the planet.