Nature abhors a vacuum, it was not until years later that people coming from inside the country began to occupy the place, clearing and setting up makeshift shacks. Over time, this was only temporary became permanent. And although some residents were later installed regularly buying land where they built concrete buildings, others by cons living there illegally today..

And among them, some live there for years, occupying or renting land plots to owners who seem to have abandoned their property.

The neighborhood of Cite Bissap is not an isolated case because the reality is the same in many slums of Dakar. These are areas where human settlement was made spontaneously and preceded the development of urban infrastructure. They also insist on the road which they believe, is very precarious in the whole and sometimes even dangerous: generally very narrow, irrational and often ending in cul de sac.

You have to take one of these narrow and winding to reach the family home of Khemess Diouf where the six rooms were reduced to ashes. Loss experience, two freezers, a closet, many clothes and other objects. liters of oil and the nets.

Some residents of Cite Bissap, aware of the precariousness of their habitat, have sought to rent rooms in the surrounding neighborhoods. His friends, who help in the work, nod their heads. athletic champions of the Senegalese wrestling.

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