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Bokk Diom Association

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Dakar's Mbeubeuss Pickers Fight to Stay When the Dump Closes

Waste & Recycling

🇸🇳 Senegal

Bokk Diom's 1,300 pickers, who have worked West Africa's biggest dump for decades, stopped Dakar's garbage trucks in 2023 and are now demanding a just transition as the World Bank-financed closure of Mbeubeuss proceeds.

1,300membersBokk Diom members (as reported by IAWP)
17peopleWorkers arrested in the February 2025 Mbeubeuss eviction, including leaders
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