Last weekend, President Wade announced his government’s offer of repatriation and land to Haitians who wants to settle in Senegal. He said his government will build housing estates for the Haitians if they ‘come in small numbers or an entire region if they come en masse’.
After intense criticism from the Senegalese people, President Wade told RNW that his offer was just ‘a proposition and not a decision’. He said he will present his proposition to the African Union (AU) and that members of the union will discuss and make final decision.
Most Senegalese people are without a plot of land and they live in abject poverty. Many described the president’s land offer to Haitians as an insult to the poor Senegalese.
President Wade is known for retracting his statements.
Source:rnw.nl/
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