 News - West Afrcia - Senegal
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African Fashion Finds a Home in Dakar |
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Senegal | 6/14/2012 10:25:43 PM
DAKAR - Dakar Fashion Week celebrates its 10th year with the biggest lineup yet. The organizers of the international event aim to reach the heights of fashion weeks in Paris and New York, while remaining distinctly African.
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AU/ECOWAS Call for Compromise in Senegal Presidential Vote |
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Senegal | 2/26/2012 8:45:08 AM
People in Senegal go to the polls Sunday amid uncertainty and continued calls from the opposition for elections to be postponed and incumbent president, Abdoulaye Wade, to withdraw his candidacy. The African Union and West African regional bloc ECOWAS are proposing that, if re-elected, Mr. Wade serve an abbreviated two-year mandate before fresh elections are organized.
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Senegalese vote to select new president |
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Senegal | 2/26/2012 8:42:08 AM
Millions of Senegalese voters are casting votes on Sunday to select their new leader of the country among the 14 candidates including outgoing president Abdoulaye Wade and some former prime ministers.
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Les transporteurs suspendent leur grève de 48 heures |
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Senegal | 1/3/2012 11:11:16 PM
Le Syndicat national des travailleurs des transports routiers du Sénégal, affilié à la Confédération nationale des travailleurs du Sénégal (CNTS), a levé mardi soir son mot d’ordre de grève de 48 heures, au terme de plusieurs heures de discussions avec le gouvernement qui se sont soldés par un ‘’échec’’.
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Developing world officials discuss financial inclusion for poor in Mexico |
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Senegal | 9/28/2011 12:45:25 AM
Central bank governors, finance ministers and financial regulators from 80 developing countries are meeting this week under the Global Policy Forum, organized by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and the governments of Mexico and Peru, to set goals for expanding financial services to their populations on 28-30 in Riviera Maya, Mexico, according to an AFI press release.
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Senegal hosts Ecowas meeting on scientific research, development |
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Senegal | 8/30/2010 10:01:36 PM
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) opens Tuesday a three-day meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to ponder on the contribution of researchers in working out a regional community development programme, an official source told APA here on Monday.
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FAO launches online anti-poverty drive |
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Senegal | 5/12/2010 9:21:56 PM
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a major online drive to step up the fight against hunger through a “1billion hungry” project.
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FIFA to rule on Apoula Edel’s nationality Wednesday |
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Senegal | 5/2/2010 8:32:57 PM
The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) will vote Wednesday on the possibility or not for the goalkeeper of Paris Saint-Germain, Apoula Edel (23) to wear the colors of Cameroon, APA learns here Saturday.
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Africa counts on Kaba, Montsho for Berlin world athletics champships |
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Senegal | 4/27/2009 7:48:17 AM
The International Dakar Athletics Centre (CIAD) bets on Senegalese Ndiss Kaba Badji (long-jump) and Botswana Amantle Montsho (400m) to win medals at the Athletics World Championships on 15 -23 August in Berlin, Germany, the technical coordinator and long sprint coach, Anthony Koffi, told APA.
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African Fashion Finds a Home in Dakar |
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Senegal | 6/14/2012 10:25:43 PM
DAKAR - Dakar Fashion Week celebrates its 10th year with the biggest lineup yet. The organizers of the international event aim to reach the heights of fashion weeks in Paris and New York, while remaining distinctly African.
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Senegal Youth Mobilizes Before Elections |
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Senegal | 2/12/2012 3:58:52 PM
A non-partisan youth movement has kicked off a weekend-long protest in Dakar, as many presidential candidates campaign throughout Senegal, including 85-year-old incumbent Abdoulaye Wade. The small, but committed, protest movement says there will not be an election on February 26th if Wade is a candidate.
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Senegal Turns Away from French in Boost to Democracy |
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Senegal | 1/24/2012 10:15:35 PM
Senegal, once considered a francophone cradle in West Africa, is now increasingly turning from French to the local Wolof language. Scholars say this is a boost for democracy, but also a problem in some regions of the country.
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Unrest Delays Polio Vaccine Drive |
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Senegal | 5/8/2011 3:28:18 PM
Insecurity has forced health officials in Côte d'Ivoire to delay a polio vaccine campaign in Bas Sassandra, a southern region where at least three people have recently contracted the highly infectious disease.
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Nigeria ex-leader meets with Senegal government |
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Senegal | 2/24/2012 7:12:12 AM
Nigeria's former president on Thursday met with Senegalese opposition leaders, including pop star and former presidential aspirant Youssou Ndour, in an effort to broker a solution to the country's political malaise ahead of a tense presidential vote.
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