Senegal, Africa

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President Jammeh Donates To Kanifing Fire Victims

The Point

Friday, November 10, 2006

The President Dr Alhagie Yahya Jammeh donated D10,000.00 to each of the bereaved families of the Kanifing Estate fire incident. Dr Jammeh also...

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SENEGAL: Migration - a mother's load

africa » senegal » dakar

IRIN

Sunday, November 05, 2006

In this once thriving village on the edge of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, fishing boats have all but disappeared from the fetid, garbage-strewn...

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SENEGAL: Setting sights across the sea

africa » senegal

IRIN

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

They drive the most expensive cars and build the biggest houses. In impoverished Senegal illegal migrants are models of success and the more...

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SENEGAL: Into the West

africa » senegal » dakar

IRIN

Monday, October 30, 2006

From the plains of Mali to the rice fields of Guinea, illegal migration has become part of modern West African folklore. It inspires songs, dominates...

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SENEGAL: On the make with microfinance

africa » senegal » dakar

IRIN

Sunday, October 29, 2006

The sewing machine works at full speed all day and piles of cloth and fabric are stacked up to the ceiling in Rokhaya Mboup's cramped living room,...

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SENEGAL: Helping girls make the grade

africa » senegal » dakar

IRIN

Friday, October 27, 2006

Kewe Thiam is the exception to the rule that most Senegalese girls don’t make it to high school. Sitting with a group of her peers, Thiam’s is the...

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Senegalese Presidential Election

africa » senegal

The Point

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Five months after the declaration of the candidature of Idrissa Seck’s in the coming Senegalese presidential race which takes place in February 2007,...

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COTE D IVOIRE: Yellow fever outbreak

africa » senegal » dakar

IRIN

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Two cases of deadly and untreatable Yellow Fever have been reported in Cote d’Ivoire in the last week, and health officials fear that the outbreak...

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‘Rewmi’ Divides the Country

africa » senegal » dakar

The Point

Friday, October 06, 2006

Just a day after its legal launching at Cices, Dakar, international trade fair, ‘Rewmi’ the party launched by Idrissa Seck, former senegalese...

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SENEGAL: Villagers blamed for deadly ICRC mine

africa » senegal » ziguinchor

IRIN

Monday, September 25, 2006

Two men have been arrested in connection with a mine explosion in Senegal’s southern Casamance region three weeks ago, which killed one worker with...

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