Senegalese women take aim at polluting countries in march for climate justice

The Associated Press ^ | November 2, 2024 | BY ANNIE RISEMBERG

[Oldeconomybuyer]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — About 50 Senegalese women climate activists hit the streets of Dakar Saturday to demand climate justice ahead of COP29 in a march held annually since 2021, but that organizers say is particularly pertinent this year.

Participants yelled “Down with capitalism! Down with polluting countries!” as they marched through Dakar’s Medina neighborhood, carrying banners and signs demanding protection of Senegal’s resources and calling for a decarbonized future.

“It’s been four years that we’ve been marching, and nothing’s changed. They’re spending billions to do their conferences, but they owe us billions in compensation,” said Cheikh Niange Faye, a former tour guide from Senegal’s Thiès region, referring to the countries responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

“Us in the rural world, women from the rural world, this year we have seen a lot of floods.”

This year saw record breaking floods across the Sahel, and Senegal was no exception.

Activists in Senegal say the countries responsible for greenhouse gas emissions owe Africa for the suffering caused by the effects of climate change, citing data from the Carbon Disclosure Project that puts the continent’s share of global emissions at just 3.8%.

Khady Camara is an activist based in Dakar and the main organizer of the Senegal women’s climate march. She said ahead of the COP29 she is calling on countries to respect the Paris Agreement.

[cgbg]

Leftists teaching Africans to hate whitey—what could possibly go wrong?

[BenLurkin]

Looks to me like AP staged the entire stunt.

[Jeff Chandler]

I don’t take lectures on climate from people who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman.

[Libloather]

Where do I attend the ‘down with communism!’ march?

[metmom]

I don’t take lectures on climate from people who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman.

They can't make up their minds on whether we're warming or cooling either.

Idiots all the way around.

[metmom]

“Us in the rural world, women from the rural world, this year we have seen a lot of floods.” This year saw record breaking floods across the Sahel, and Senegal was no exception.

Like they've never had floods before, right?

[ZULU]

Look in the mirror. Now take the UN and get the hell out of my country.

[SmokingJoe]

“but they owe us billions in compensation,” said Cheikh Niange”

In other words they are grifters.
Nobody owes you nothing bitch!

[SmokingJoe]

Plenty of floods and every calamity known to man.
They been watching too much MSNBC/CNN.
That always makes you stupid.

[monkeyshine]

They got it backwards. Cheap energy, good decent governance and capitalism are what they need to grow and prosper. Marching around demanding pollution reparations will get them nowhere.

[Leaning Right]

> “… they owe us billions in compensation,” said Cheikh Niange Faye <

And there it is. Just another shakedown.

[butlerweave]

What does capitalism and polluting have to do with weather ? LOL

[TigersEye]

Woke Virus Infects Senegal. 50 Casualties Take To Streets!

[PeterPrinciple]

most likely 50 PAID protesters.

[who knows what evil?]

Does Senegal have nukes? Then sit down and shut up.

[TigersEye]

That’s how it starts.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If dem hos don’t like the weather, they should wait 15 minutes.

[gundog]

Senegalese women? Tell me more....

[Larry Lucido]

Senegal? Has anybody informed George Costanza?