"We have made tremendous progress today but of course our work is never done," she said during her speech at the conference in Dakar on Friday, adding "We have a long way to go, and this is a fight we are never going to stop fighting, until every boy and every girl has access to education." According to Agence France-Presse, she co-hosted the event alongside Senegalese President Macky Sall and President Macron.