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Fresh riots break out in Dakar
Dakar, Senegal
22 November 2007 04:32
Sporadic riots broke out in the Senegalese capital on Thursday against a ban on street hawking the day after one of the country's most violent protests in recent decades.

Anti-riot police fired tear gas to disperse a group of about 200 stone-throwing vendors accompanied by bands of unemployed youths in downtown Dakar, an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene reported.

"They are small skirmishes, the situation is under control," one police officer said.

Police said at least 200 people have been arrested following violent protests that rocked the otherwise stable West African country on Wednesday.

Hundreds of vendors had rampaged across the city, burning old tyres in the usually traffic choked streets and bringing the bustling capital to a standstill. Police broke up those riots and a separate protest march that was about to be staged by labour unions over the soaring cost of living.

The government and hawkers went into emergency talks late on Wednesday and agreed to have the tens of thousands of informal traders operate legally from properly designated sites.

President Aboudlaye Wade, in office since 2000, last week ordered the eviction of the street vendors who had set up shop on pavements across the oceanside city, saying they were disrupting the formal business sector.

The president, who is set to host a major summit of Islamic nations next March, said uncontrolled street vending had cost the country about $185-million due to traffic jams that were putting off investors.

In a recent study, the World Bank found that 95% of workers in Senegal were in the informal sector, noting that 27,5% of employable Senegalese had no jobs.

Other estimates, however, put the unemployment rate at 40% in Africa's westernmost country of 11,7-million people, whose main sources of livelihood are fishing and agriculture. -- Sapa-AFP
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