The night of 29 to 30 October 2025 will remain forever engraved in the memory of the inhabitants of the Afia quarter, in Yeumbeul Sud. That night, Mame Diarra Sène, 23 years old, a student and a single mother, experienced a cold and intimate drama. According to L’Observateur, the young woman, pregnant for 23 weeks without knowing it, gave birth alone in her room, before her mother, panic-stricken, inhumed the fetus behind the family home. A night of pain and panic. This Monday, at the Tribunal des flagrants délits de Pikine-Guédiawaye, the courtroom was plunged into a heavy silence as the frail silhouette of Mame Diarra Sène appeared at the bar. Voilée, the fleeing look, the trembling voice, she was answering the heads of clandestine abortion and violation of the rules of burial. “I didn’t know I was pregnant”, she whispers, her throat tight. A declaration which provokes the stupefaction of the tribunal.
Yeumbeul Sud: a 23-year-old student gives birth alone at night and buries the fetus behind her house “I didn’t know I was pregnant”
