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

by Bokk Diom Association · HQ 🇸🇳 Senegal

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0membersBokk Diom members (as reported by IAWP)as of 2025-03-01 · may be outdated
0peopleWorkers arrested in the February 2025 Mbeubeuss eviction, including leadersas of 2025-03-01 · may be outdated

Bokk Diom is the association of waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite outside Dakar and a member of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers; its president is Harouna Niass. It holds close to 1,300 members, and WIEGO has reported that nearly half of members at the site are women. In May 2023 it staged its first-ever protest, blocking trucks and winning a hearing with the Minister of Urban Planning. After police evicted hundreds of pickers on 24 February 2025 and arrested 17 workers, including union and Bokk Diom leaders, the association pressed the World Bank-financed PROMOGED project to honour the livelihood restoration plan and the August 2024 Saly agreements. It is also working with the CNTS union confederation toward a national waste pickers' union.

IAWP: Waste pickers in Dakar face catastrophic evictions ↗WIEGO: Bokk Diom mobilizes against partial closure of Mbeubeuss ↗Africa Is a Country: Fighting for the waste commons ↗ILO: Mbeubeuss-Bokk Diom cooperative established ↗
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