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Senegal municipalities (cities, towns and villages)
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New York Times
April 24, 2018
But a decision this month by Senegal to deport two former detainees to their chaotic birth country of Libya has raised the prospect that the resettlement .... Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York who is a volunteer lawyer for Mr. Khalifa, said his client was first told in January that heÃâà...
News24
April 21, 2018
Senegalese parliament on Thursday passed a law setting a higher bar for presidential candidates after protests that saw police fire tear gas on ... Faye said 12 people were arrested in the northern town of Saint-Louis, and the towns of Thies in the west and Mbacke in the centre together saw another 12Ãâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
April 2, 2018
SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - " Mum, mum, get up - the water's here!" Fatou Ndiaye's children shook her awake in the night, as waves crashed against their house on the coast of Saint-Louis, a city in northern Senegal. They were used to sleeping with the sound of theÃâà...
Independent
March 24, 2018
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Senegalese President Macky Sall on Friday promised to “track down” the perpetrators of a spate of child kidnappings and killings in Senegal that have sown fear among ... The latest case confirmed on Tuesday was a toddler found dead in Rufisque, a town close to the capital, Dakar.
MinnPost
March 24, 2018
Or imagine the neon blinking lights of the horaire bus rumbling into my village before the sun comes up on its way to the city and the murmured morning greetings from its passengers. I'll know the acceptable price for a kilo of bananas — 800 CFA — and how to turn my back on a taxi driver only to be hastilyÃâà...
Long Beach Post
March 23, 2018
Shirin Senegal, president of VIP Records, said that while she is grateful for the sign receiving the status and to the people within the city that worked tirelessly to reach an agreement with her team, there is still work to be done to ensure that Anderson and his historic sign are treated with the respect theyÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
In the northern Senegalese village of Ndiayene Pendao, close to the border with Mauritania, Fatouma Sow is pulling weeds. .... International development plays an important role in supporting villages in this part of Senegal, with signs along the highways proclaiming how corporations from Korea, Italy andÃâà...
Goal.com
March 23, 2018
Senegal coach Aliou Cisse has disclosed that Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye has a muscle tear and could be out for three weeks. ... Despite playing for the entire duration in Everton's 2-1 win over Stoke City last Saturday, the 28-year-old is set to spend some time on the sidelines after Cisse had hisÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 18, 2018
Senegal's government has closed more than a dozen schools linked to a man the Turkish government considers a terrorist, underlining Turkey's growing influence in predominantly Muslim West Africa. About 3,000 children in Senegal have been affected as Turkey reduces the influence of Fethullah Gulen,Ãâà...
africanews
March 17, 2018
Twenty people were injured during clashes with police on Thursday evening, the town hall said. Illegal street sellers, many of them African migrants, are a common sight in Madrid and other Spanish cities. Hawking anything from watches to handbags, they often lay out their wares on blankets which can beÃâà...
Mail Tribune
March 12, 2018
Erik Oline gets close to a lioness at Fathala, a wildlife breeding center near the town of Toubacouta in Senegal. ... Oline spent the past six months on the Western coast of Africa, living in a small village and working on his host family's farm, thanks to the Oakland, California-based nonprofit organizationÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
Rome, Italy - As Italians woke up to election results on Monday, 54-year-old Idy Diene left his home in the town of Pontedera and headed into ... After a rally calling for justice on Monday, Dario Nardella, the city's mayor, tweeted, "The grief the Senegalese community is going through is understandable.".
Quartz
February 4, 2018
Sidibe died in April 2016. But the history of photography in West Africa stretches further back. It begins in the coastal town of Saint-Louis in the north of Senegal, where a photo camera, believed to be the first to be used in West Africa (link in French), was sent by the French Minister of Marine and Colonies inÃâà...
Citizen
February 3, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron got a rousing welcome Saturday from tens of thousands as he visited the historic city of Saint-Louis, Senegal's former ... “We have seen the coastal erosion, the fears, the walls that have fallen, the economic activities destroyed and the town slowly receding in the face ofÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
But there's a new hero in town…Sandale-man! Yes, this super hero created by Senegalese filmmakers is a force to be reckoned with. Just like the likes of Spiderman, he protects and aids people in Senegal from petty criminals. From his name, Sandale-man, he gets his powers from his sandales.
Okayafrica
December 31, 1999
A few years back while backpacking across West Africa (Ivory Coast to Benin) I spent a few days in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. I was in the search of mystical catfish found in a river in a small village in this town. My Burkinabe friends in Abidjan had told me about how these catfish were revered by theÃâà...
Amnesty International
December 31, 1999
The Senegalese authorities must protect the right to peaceful protest and ensure the security forces refrain from using excessive force as ... The authorities announced that the protest had been unauthorized on several grounds including a 2011 decree banning all assemblies in the city centre areas.
ESPN FC
December 31, 1999
Senegal midfielder Papa Alioune Ndiaye has acknowledged that injuries remain a concern ahead of the Teranga Lions' World Cup campaign. The West Africans are set to compete in their first World Cup since they reached the quarter final in 2002, and tournament represents a superb opportunity for aÃâà...
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