In Senegal, Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne, announced that President Macky Sall (photo) will give today 366 land titles to residents of Tobago. Evicted from their homes in mid-2015, during works at the Léopold Sédar Senghor airport of Dakar, the beneficiaries filed actin to have their rights restored.

“The 366 victims will today receive, as a symbolic gesture, at the Presidential palace, from the President of the Republic. The families will be represented by a select committee,” local press reports.

The government is trying here to calm the people of Tobago angered by the expropriation that caused all but six buildings in the area to destructed, on the order of June 4, 2015, by President Sall himself.

Souha Touré