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SENEGAL: Citizens on coastal environment watch

IRIN

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Concrete walls, boulders, tyres; enclosed vegetable gardens: These are just some of the means Senegal’s coastal communities are using to stop...

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Alioune Mbye Nder Releases Album

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The Point

Monday, November 12, 2007

The high - rising Senegalese male vocalist Alioune Mbye Nder (of Lemzo Diamano fame) and his Setsima Group have released a brand new 10 - track album...

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Mam Penda Seck Weds Fatou Gewel

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The Point

Monday, November 12, 2007

According to the Senegalese press, Mam Penda Seck, younger brother of the famous Senegalese musician Thione Balago Seck, has married singer Fatou...

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Senegambia Tourism Trade Fair launched

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The first-ever tourism trade fare organised by the Association of Small Scale Enterprise in Tourism (ASSET) of The Gambia and Organisation Nationale...

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Senegal Proposed Salary Reduction Limited to Top Echelon

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The Point

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

No sooner had the Senegalese National Assembly approved of President Wade’s proposal to reduce the salaries of all government workers in Senegal from...

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SENEGAL: Smooth transition for Taxi Sisters

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IRIN

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

“It’s not heavy,” Sanou Top insists, as she takes a suitcase out of her client’s hands and hoists it into the trunk of her cab. “I hope you drive...

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Senegal’s Wade Cuts Govt. Pay as Food Prices Rise

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The Point

Monday, November 05, 2007

(Reuters) - Senegal’s president has pledged to cut the number of ministers in his cabinet and reduce government salaries, including his own, in a...

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SAHEL: Foundation money to allow long term approach to water problem

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IRIN

Sunday, October 28, 2007

A donation of US$150 million to a 10-year water project in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and nine other countries in Africa and Central America...

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MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: Arrests raise questions over safe return of Mauritanian refugees

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IRIN

Thursday, October 25, 2007

A group that claims to represent some of the 30,000 Mauritanian refugees living in Senegal says the recent arrest of some returnees is a sign that...

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SENEGAL: As fuel prices soar, oil lamps becoming a luxury product

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IRIN

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Surging petrol prices in Africa usually weigh most heavily on the emerging urban middle class, making it a struggle to put fuel in cars or motorbikes...

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