Following the closure in Ranérou of the Agricultural Resilience Project (PRA) financed by the World Bank to the tune of CFA 3 000 million and benefiting 15 000 households in Bignona, Gossas, Louga and Ranérou, the Minister for Family and Solidarity, Maïmouna Dièye, launched this Tuesday in Podor the Programme de Réponse à l’Insécurité Alimentaire (PSA). With a budget of 1.3 billion, the programme aims to support 10 000 vulnerable households in the departments of Podor, Matam, Kanel, Bakel and Goudiry, affected by the flooding of the Senegal River. Each household will receive 135 000 F CFA to cope with the period of drought, reports Le Quotidien. The newspaper does however know that the launching ceremony in Podor is likely to be disrupted by the boycott of the staff of the Executive Secretariat of the National Food Security Council (Sec-Cnsa). Cited by the same source, the agents denounce four months of salary arrears and their disregard in the process of identifying the beneficiaries, a task which normally falls to them. This operation comes at last in a climate of persistent controversy around the 8 billion announced in 2024 for the victims of the North. Le mouvement Gueum Sa Bopp announced a complaint, tandis que le député Mbaye Dionne a adressé une question écrite à la tutelle : “Près d’un an plus tard, les interrogations persistent sur la destination réelle de ces fonds”. (Almost a year later, questions remain as to the actual destination of these funds.) For its part, the Minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Cheikh Tidiane Dièye, assured that direct transfers and seed financing had been carried out on the basis of official reports, Le Quotidien reports.
Podor: 1,3 billion F CFA distributed to vulnerable households, Maïmouna Dièye faced with the boycott of…
