Unregistered Senegal youth struggle for legal status

Dicakory Balde, a municipal official, works on the digital civil registry at the archive storage of the Parcelles Assainies town hall in Dakar, Senegal, July 19, 2024.

It was only when 12-year-old Senegalese schoolboy Lassou Samb prepared to sit his end-of-year exams that his lack of any legal documentation finally caught up with him.