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Senegal is preparing for the municipal and departmental elections of this Sunday, January 23, 2022. The candidates are campaigning, and civil society is also mobilizing, such as the women’s monitoring platform for peace and security Ëtu Jamm, which brings together around fifty of women’s organizations. She called, this Monday, January 18, 2022, the actors for peaceful elections.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
After incidents between activists since the start of the campaign and a climate described as deleterious “, the Ëtu Jamm platform, “space of peace” in Wolof calls on political actors to have a sense of responsibility. ” Ëtu Jamm is a little worried regarding this desire for violence that is happening in different localities. What we intend to do are awareness-raising actions, meeting the various actors involved in these elections and training on electoral issues, particularly electoral mediation. », Explains its president, Penda Seck Diouf.
A “watch room”
Since 2012, the platform has participated in all presidential, legislative and local elections, with the establishment of a “watch room” on D-Day, and the training of observers. They will be regarding sixty deployed in all regions this Sunday.
« We are going to do a training. This time it will take place online. Before, we made them come to Dakar. So women who go into internet connection space. Their connection was arranged », Details Maréma Touré Thiam, president of the Association of African Women for Research and Development (Afard).
The platform which is also called ” in solidarity with the women of Mali » following Economic Community of West African States sanctions (ECOWAS) and calls for negotiations to find a consensus.
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