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Dakar, Senegal

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WEST AFRICA: Meningitis emerge...
WEST AFRICA: Meningitis emergency vaccine stock tapped early
Friday, March 6, 2009
 The UN World Health Organization’s meningitis vaccine stockpile programme has already tapped into its inventory, weeks before the worst of the...
Synchronized polio campaign ki...
Synchronized polio campaign kicks off across eight countries in West Africa
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Fifty-three million children under five are expected to be reached across eight West African countries in a coordinated polio immunization campaign...
SENEGAL: Squeezing more out of...
SENEGAL: Squeezing more out of sesame
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Senegalese government has invested millions of dollars in the past decade to revive sesame production, but the sector has been slow to develop....
WEST AFRICA: Can organic cotto...
WEST AFRICA: Can organic cotton save the industry?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Fuel and fertiliser price hikes, insect infestations and chemical damage to soil have led some cotton farmers in West Africa to produce organic...
Senegal UPDATE: El-Malick Seck...
Senegal UPDATE: El-Malick Seck’s appeal postponed again
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Hearing of the appeal case filed by El-Malick Seck, a publisher of Dakar-based Daily24 Heures Chrono newspaper, has been adjourned to February 16,...
WEST AFRICA: When there is no ...
WEST AFRICA: When there is no village doctor
Thursday, February 5, 2009
An international financial recession threatens to worsen the “severe medical workforce crisis” faced by almost 60 African and Asian countries,...
Senegal: Albinos face perilous social rejection
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81588
Saturday, November 22, 2008
While albinos in West Africa are not facing the violent attacks seen in recent weeks in other parts of the continent, people with albinism in...
President Wade survives assassination attempt
http://www.senegambianews.com/article.cfm?articleID=18463
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Abdoulaye Wade has survived an assissanation attempt last night in a Dakar suburb. Last night's attempt on the life of the octogenarian president was...
GLOBAL: Emergency education ga...
GLOBAL: Emergency education gains ground
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Humanitarian policy-makers have endorsed internationally-agreed standards on rebuilding education sectors shattered by crises, in a move experts say...
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SENEGAL: "Worrying” rise in alcohol abuse
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Alcohol abuse in Senegal has reached “massive” levels but most addicts are not receiving the help they need, according to experts. “Over the last...
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