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Waste pickers fear for future at Senegalese mega dump
DAKAR: Scores of pickers move along a raised platform of rubbish, scooping up pieces of plastic with iron hooks, alongside cattle and hundreds of egrets also scouring the trash.The smell is rancid atop what the pickers dub “Yemen” — a volcano-like mound of multicoloured refuse in the sprawling Mbeubeuss landfill, on the edge of Senegal’s capital Dakar.Dump trucks tip trash onto the platform that towers over a suburb of the West African metropolis, as pickers lunge towards the fresh piles of garbage.“Everyone is enriching themselves,“ says Laye Niaye, a security guard, watching men, women and children wade through the trash.Dakar, a growing city of over three million people, produces hundreds

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