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Dakar Region

Invest in Africa to beat bank crisis - Senegal's Wade

DAKAR, Oct 11 (Reuters) - European countries should spend money on African infrastructure projects as a means of boosting production and alleviating the global financial crisis, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said on Saturday.

POLITICS-SENEGAL: Ms. Mayor, Ms. Prefect

DAKAR, Oct 10 (IPS) - The Sicap Baobap neighborhood, one of the prettiest in the Senegalese capital, stands out, but not for the most obvious reasons. Not for its well-paved roads, or the number of naturalised immigrants from...

Jordan: Illiteracy eradication project launched in Um Rassas

Amman - The Ministry of Education on Thursday launched a project to eradicate illiteracy in the Um Rassas District of Madaba. The launch of the "Towards a District Free of Illiteracy" project marked the Kingdom's celebration of...

Senegal: Thousands Displaced From Their Dakar Homes

Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in two districts of Dakar where houses should never have been built, according to Seydou Sysall, the former Senegalese minister of development and urban planning.

9. Persecuted in Senegal for being gay, an entertainer finds refuge in new York

"There's security, there's independence, there's peace," Pape Mbaye said of his new country. (Beatrice de Gea for The New York Times) Persecuted in Senegal for being gay, an entertainer finds refuge in new York Pape Mbaye gets...

SPECTOR TRAVEL SENEGAL AND THE GAMBIA TOUR FEATURED IN WASHINGTON POST SEP 21, 2008

Roots and Culture Tour during Thanksgiving week, Nov. 22-29, is priced from $2,229 per person double, including taxes. The escorted trip, offered by Spector Travel of Boston, includes round-trip flights from New York to Dakar,...

Senegal: Editor sentenced to three years' imprisonment

English PEN is outraged by the three-year prison sentence imposed on El Malick Seck , editor of the Dakar daily 24 Heures Chrono , on 12 September 2008 for a piece implicating President Abdoulaye Wade in money laundering....

RPT-FEATURE-Baobab: new taste for Europe, trade for Africa

By Pascal Fletcher DAKAR, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The baobab tree -- thick-trunked icon of the African bush -- does not look appetising. But European firms may soon be using the pulp of its fruit as a flavouring for cereal...

Africa: Children Take on the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation

Children should not be seen as victims of sexual exploitation, but rather the front-line fighters against it, said non-profit Save the Children Sweden at a preparatory meeting in Dakar in advance of the World Congress...

Oct 2, 2008: Chris Welcome "Quartet" at Le Grand Dakar Restaurant

Welcome, Mortiz, McLellan and Dulberger have a musicality that is fluid and full of surprise. This band is unique and gifted stemming from the patience and suddenness of Morton Feldman and the swing and bounce of Johnny...

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