Bettenty Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bettenty/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bettenty Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bettenty/ 32 32 17 women oyster gatherers drowned off Senegal https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/17-women-oyster-gatherers-drowned-off-senegal/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/17-women-oyster-gatherers-drowned-off-senegal/ Senegal’s President Macky Sall has called for three days of mourning for 17 women who drowned at sea. He’s called for an inquiry into the incident in which at least 40 more woman were injured. ends intro The tragedy occurred off Bettenty village  in a region made up of small islands and villages. The women […]

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]]> Senegal’s President Macky Sall has called for three days of mourning for 17 women who drowned at sea.
He’s called for an inquiry into the incident in which at least 40 more woman were injured.
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The tragedy occurred off Bettenty village  in a region made up of small islands and villages.
The women are believed to have been on a boat carrying  at least 60 people in search of oysters.
People in the region often take to sea without life vests in overcrowded small fishing boats.
There being no doctors on duty in the region, the  injured were treated by a nurse and midwife at a local health outpost.
An estimated 1,2 million people die by drowning in Africa each year – that’s more than those killed by malaria. The World Health Organization estimates that Africa has the highest continental drowning rate in the world.

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