Jambur (Gambia)
In the small town of Jambur, the call to evening prayer resounds from the white mosque.
A few middle-aged men walk towards the two minarets, separated by a tin roof.
Here, most of the young people have left.
An exodus that began under the dictatorial regime of Yahya Jammeh and continues, five years after his departure.
Absence of work, fear of a return to dictatorship or even administrative problems… the parents ended up accepting that they might never see their children again.
“We don't want them to come back
,” Abdoulaye Bojang sadly admits.
One of his sons was killed in 2000, during a student demonstration repressed by the police, during which 14 people lost their lives in Banjul, the Gambian capital.
His other children live in Portugal and the Netherlands.
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Jambur's greatest drama unfolded in 2009, during the witch hunt ordered by Yahya Jammeh.
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