The unemployment rate in Senegal is 16.9% in the last quarter of 2019, according to the director general of Anamo, Maodo Malick Mbaye, who reacted to the results of a study that would place Senegal 3rd in the world with 48%. The unemployment rate in Senegal is 16.9% in the last quarter of 2019, according to the director general of Anamo, Maodo Malick Mbaye, who reacted to the results of a study that would place Senegal 3rd in the world with 48%. %MCEPASTEBIN%

Senegal is the 3rd country in the world where unemployment is the highest, with a rate of 48%, wrote the daily Vox Populi. This study does not reflect reality, in the opinion of the director general of the National Agency of the House of the Tool (Anamo), Maodo Malick Mbaye, who speaks of a "completely erroneous" document that would be exploited by the newspaper. The latter advances a rate of 16%, according to the International Labour Office (BIT), one of the best rates in Africa and in the world, he adds. "The National Agency for Statistics and Demography (Ansd), an umbrella and very credible institution, working on an improved basis of the definition of the Bit, gives an unemployment rate of 16.9% in the last quarter of 2019," Says. And according to Maodo Malick Mbaye, the only "credible" ranking found in the Ilostat website of the International Labour Office (Bit), ranking the countries most affected by unemployment, places Malawi 1st with a rate of 28.7% in 2019. South Africa comes in 2nd place with 28.5%, Kosovo is 3rd with 25.6%, and the 4th is Palestine with 25.3% unemployment in 2019.
In addition, the DG of Anamo praised the achievements of the regime since 2012 in this regard. According to him, Anamo has rehabilitated 15 houses of the tool, including 10 functional, accompanied 15 thousand young people to integration through training and the provision of tools. In addition, he says, the agency has, on its own, the training of 205 professionals in automotive mechatronics, training on innovative trades and high integration rate such as the repair of mobile phones, laundry, maintenance and repair of household appliances, driving drones. From 2 million 500 thousand CFA francs at its creation, he continues, his budget has increased to more than a billion. Compared to the craft and apprenticeship sector, a program in which Anamo is housed, Maodo Malick Mbaye maintains that 120 workshops were equipped in 2012 against 3,088 in 2019, 1,010 apprentices were trained in 2012 against 28,531 in 2019. Always welcoming the efforts of the State in this direction, he said that with regard to the Fund for the Financing of Vocational and Technical Training, the 3Fpt, 36 thousand young people received training vouchers last year. "During 2019, the Onfp has implemented 151 training operations across the national territory, corresponding to a workforce of 3,413 beneficiaries, 72% of whom are workers from either the formal or informal sectors, and the 28% reflect the share of initial training of other jobseekers. The Der has granted financing to 200 thousand direct and indirect beneficiaries for a total amount of 31.2 billion CFA francs. Thus, 68 thousand 289 beneficiaries have received funding through the economic empowerment window, "defended yesterday the DG of Anamo, during a press briefing.