In Senegal, six months after their election, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko presented this Monday, October 14, their program to develop the country over the next 25 years.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
Entitled “For a sovereign, just and prosperous Senegal”, the “Senegal 2050” program presented this Monday by Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko is a program with ambitious economic objectives. Tripling per capita income by 2050, ensuring annual growth of more than 6% by developing, among other things, competitive sectors and a strong private sector… these are some of the government’s major objectives.
“ Industrialize ” And ” innovate » to establish an economy that creates jobs, as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye recalled in his speech. “ This requires the development of our natural resources, whether agricultural, mining, oil or gas, through ambitious industrialization. We will integrate our raw materials into global value chains and transform our wealth, locally, in particular, through digital technologies and artificial intelligence “, declared the Senegalese president.
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Among the promises announced are those to train 700,000 young people in the next five years, to reduce the cost of electricity thanks to the exploitation of gas or to invest in research and innovation, all for a cost of 18.5 billion CFA francs of which only 60% would be financed by the State.
Ambitious promises that will have to be implemented, but one month before legislative elections, the challenge for those in power is also to restore hope to the Senegalese while the first positive impulses are still awaited, in an economic context. particularly difficult.
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