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SENEGAL: Smooth transition for Taxi Sisters

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...

SENEGAL: New efforts underway to educate in local languages

IRIN

Thursday, September 20, 2007

With formal education systems crumbling in much of sub-Saharan Africa, educationalists are looking more to informal systems of education taught in...

SENEGAL: FGM continues 10 years after villagers claim to abandon it

IRIN

Friday, August 17, 2007

MALICOUNDA BAMBARA Some 70km southeast of Senegal’s capital Dakar, a crowd of journalists and dignitaries gathered in the village...

SENEGAL: Circumcision message could confuse gay community

IRIN

Friday, August 10, 2007

Experts are warning Senegalese men who have sex with men not to get caught up in the hype about male circumcision after recent research indicated...

WEST AFRICA: Poverty, search for status driving migration to Europe

IRIN

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Behind the Soumbedioune fish market in the centre of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, three men jumped out of a brightly decorated canoe laden with...

Regional meeting on protection of civilians in West Africa

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Monday, April 30, 2007

Date: 17 Apr 2007 From 17 to 19 April 2007 in Dakar, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is holding a regional...

SENEGAL: Lyme disease: the forgotten scourge of West Africa

IRIN

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

In the small village of Sindia, 70 km from Dakar, the landscape is dotted with the burrows of rodents. They may not be easy to spot, but even more...

SENEGAL: Hear our voices - Sitting rubbish to make a living

IRIN

Thursday, January 18, 2007

The Mbeubeuss rubbish dump lies an hour’s drive out of the Senegalese capital, Dakar. The man-made mountain range of trash, laid out on a 600-hectare...

SENEGAL: Raising the profile of abuse

IRIN

Friday, January 12, 2007

When Henriette Tine was brutally attacked recently by her husband with a large wooden pestle the size of a bat, hundreds of women from her native...

SENEGAL: Helping girls make the grade

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...

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