[Rétro] Féminicides : 2025, l’année où les foyers sont devenus des cimetières silencieux
The year 2025 ends in Senegal in a heavy silence, laden with grief, anger, and unanswered questions. While the country prepares to turn the page on the calendar, some women have already turned the page on life, torn from existence in the very place where they should have been protected: their homes.
2025 will be remembered as a dark year. A year in which violence against women crossed a worrying threshold, in which femicides multiplied, transforming homes into silent tombs and marriage, once a refuge, into a source of fear.
Never before have gender-based violence seemed so frequent, so brutal, and so normalized. According to UN Women, a worrying increase in femicides has been observed, creating a particularly concerning national climate.
In Senegal, the figures confirm the scale of the problem. A study by the National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD), recently published by the Ministry of Family, Social Action and Solidarity, reveals that three out of ten women reported having suffered violence in the last 12 months of 2024.
Over the past five years, 31.9% of women have been victims of violence, an alarming rate that reflects the persistence and worsening of abuse. Furthermore, 70% of women report having experienced violence within their relationship.
“Three out of ten women reported experiencing violence in the 12 months preceding the survey,” explains Rokhaya Diakhaté, Director of Family Affairs. This study was conducted by the ANSD (National Agency for Statistics and Demography) with the support of UN agencies, including UN Women. The recent increase in femicide cases serves as a wake-up call: these tragedies constitute serious human rights violations that can no longer go unanswered.
The end of 2025 was marked by a series of tragedies that chilled the country.
Nogaye Thiam, when a name becomes a national symbol
The name Nogaye Thiam sent shockwaves through Senegal. This young woman died in her room, lying lifeless for 48 hours with her breastfeeding baby at her side, without any assistance from her in-laws. Her death awakened collective grief and profound indignation, but above all, a disturbing truth: Nogaye was not an isolated case; she was one among many.
In Keur Massar: Refusal of an intimate relationship becomes a death sentence
In Keur Massar, on December 14, 2025, Mariama Ba, a fishmonger and mother of seven, succumbed to the violence of her husband. Exhausted after a long day of work, she reportedly refused sexual relations. This refusal cost her her life. Beaten severely by her husband, B. Fall, she died from her injuries after being hospitalized.
Binetou Guèye killed by her husband during an alleged "joke" with a firearm
A few days later, on Saturday, December 20, 2025, in Keur Mbaye Fall, horror struck again. Binetou Guèye, 33, was shot in the temple by her husband, PM Diop, during a supposed "joke" with a recently acquired firearm. An ordinary house, a typical evening, tea, laughter... then a gunshot. Binetou died instantly.
The toll is grim: three women, three homes, three shattered lives. And then there's Dieynaba Ndiaye, brutally beaten by her husband, a young doctor, a stark reminder that domestic violence cuts across all social classes, regardless of status or education level. The same haunting question remains: how long will this go on? Behind these high-profile tragedies, dozens of anonymous women continue to suffer in silence, beaten, humiliated, and terrorized.
Gilded prisons: the other invisible violence
Not all violence makes the headlines. Some of it happens in luxurious homes, behind closed gates. Women who are perceived as privileged, surrounded by material comforts, find themselves deprived of peace, freedom, respect, and dignity. When they dare to speak out, they are often told, "Your husband has given you everything, you have no right to complain." But a home isn't built on money. Without respect, everything else is just a facade. These women sometimes suffer even more because their pain is denied, minimized, or suppressed. Many die without ever having spoken out.
Marriage, from hope to fear
In the collective imagination of Senegal, marriage is sacred. It is supposed to protect, secure, and build. In 2025, for many young women, it has become a source of anguish. The traumas, the funerals, and the stifled cries behind closed doors have instilled a deep-seated fear: "What if it were me tomorrow? What if the man I marry becomes my tormentor?" When a society comes to inspire fear of marriage, it has failed to protect its women.
A global scourge, a national emergency
The situation in Senegal is part of a global crisis. According to the UNODC and UN Women, approximately 50,000 women and girls were killed in 2024 by their intimate partner or a family member, which is 137 women per day worldwide. Globally, 840 million women, or nearly one in three, have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Despite international commitments, progress remains tragically slow.
Enough is enough
The day before yesterday, Nogaye Thiam. Yesterday, Mariama Ba. Today, Binetou Guèye. Who will it be tomorrow? Women are exhausted, suffocated by a burden they often carry alone. The 2025 toll is grim: women killed, others assaulted, thousands silenced.
This isn't just a problem for couples or a problem for women. It's a collective failure. As we close out the year, one thing is certain: silence kills as much as physical violence. Senegal can no longer wait for the next tragedy to speak out. We must prevent, protect, listen, punish, and act. Because if nothing changes, homes will continue to become silent graveyards, and women will remain forgotten victims of a violence that has become all too familiar.
May this dark and deadly year, in which too much blood has been shed, be the last.
2026: Here's hoping for a year of peace, joy, stability and dignity for all women.
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Commentaires (20)
Beaucoup de personnes iront en enfer à cause de leur comportement avec les belles sœurs ou belles filles mariées vivant dans les maisons familiales .
Discutez avec les femmes mariées vous très serez surpris d'entendre les mêmes discours .
Le cas de Nogaye a choqué plus que les autres . Pourquoi? A cause de la violence psychologique.
Il ne faut jamais s'attendre une réponse rationnelle bien pensée avec sagesse et respect qui tient compte du passé et de l'état des rapports que vous entretenez avec une femme qu'elle soit votre conjointe femme ou fiancée etc, quand une femme a les yeux , le cœuret ses vouloir ailleurs. Au contraire de l'homme, la femme répond à l'état conjoncturelle de ses émotions, besoins, vouloir et espoirs du moment sans faire fit du passé et des conséquences qui dérouleront de ses agissements et actes qu'elle est entrain de poser. Des actes dont elle agira avec des arguments vrais gênants de vous à sa connaissance ou simplement inventés de toutes pièces pour atteindre les objectifs qui l'obnibulent pour l'instant. Elle verra l'opposition à ses attitudes nouvelles ou le simple fait de la conseiller une idée contraire comme une adversité et une agression injustice à son égard qui cherche à lui ôter son bien être et agira férocement contre cela.
Toutes les femmes qui se sentent oppressées n'ont qu'à divorcer. La nouvelle génération a déjà pris le relais avec une belle mentalité. Elles travaillent, complètent leurs époux et font de très beaux enfants qui sont le fruit d'un amour sincère.
En tout cas, les hommes n'hésitent plus à divorcer pour épouser la nouvelle génération.
Il faut bien choisir et ne pas accepter n'importe quoi ou les situations 'bandes de cons' la avec les belles familles! La religion vous donne la permission de choisir, boulene assaloo sene boppe!
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