In one incident in early January, a milk seller was robbed at his house in Pakhtunabad, a ramshackle settlement in the city's northern outskirts.

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Dakar's mayor, Khalifa Sall, told RFM radio that the ramshackle development of densely-populated residential areas in the city made it impossible for the emergency services to operate effectively.

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