Full Coverage: Senegal

20.02.2008 Put your questions to Molly Melching and the women of Senegal, OneWorld's People of the Year.

22.01.2008 The movement to end female genital cutting continues to spread across many parts of Africa. Molly Melching and the women of Senegal are leading the way with innovative, culturally sensitive programs to educate and relieve suffering.

In a telling OneWorld dialogue, Molly Melching discusses Tostan's uniquely successful approach to development and how it relates to traditions, values, human rights, and human nature.

26.10.2007 WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (OneWorld) - Hip-Hop is not dead, at least not in Africa. That was the consensus after a recent screening here of the forthcoming documentary, "African Underground: Democracy in Dakar."

12.08.2007 A Senegal-based aid group that started a grassroots campaign to abolish female circumcision in West Africa has been awarded the $1.5 million Hilton humanitarian prize.
From: Al Jazeera
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26.06.2007 Senegalese village women are now able to attend school and learn new skills rather than spending dusk till dawn performing the basic tasks necessary for survival. Their emancipator? A machine.

13.03.2007

06.12.2006 There is growing momentum against the traditional but harmful practice of female genital cutting in Africa, said an organization that helped about 150 communities to publicly abandon the practice in Guinea.

17.10.2006 A fight over a promised independence, which began in 1980, continues to roil a piece of northern Senegal, though no one can say for sure what the fighting is for anymore.

03.07.2006 The African Union has decided that former Chadian president Hissene Habre will take the stand in Senegal to face charges of crimes against humanity, and Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade has promised that the trial will go ahead.

07.06.2006 A philanthropic foundation for Africa has been set up by the the Ford Foundation, based in Senegal.

01.03.2006 Senegal and Norway will play at Dakar's Leopold Sedar Senghor stadium today in an international soccer "friendly" designed to help raise awareness about the lives of children in Africa.

30.01.2006 Patrick Vieira's life story, from humble beginnings in Senegal to triumph with France, shows that football is the world's most globalised industry, says Simon Kuper.

15.12.2005 Earlier this year a debt cancellation package was agreed for 18 of the world's most impoverished countries, but now the IMF has announced a final test must be passed by six of them to qualify for the January write-off. Africa Action wants you to join them this week in telling the IMF that more delays cost more lives!

28.11.2005 In the wake of Senegal’s announcement that it would place the case of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré in the hands of the African Union (AU), a leading rights group emphasised Dakar’s legal obligation to prosecute or extradite Habré and called on the AU to recommend Habré’s extradition to Belgium.

03.10.2005 The president of Senegal has urged African countries "not to remain passive consumers of new technologies, but to keep in step with the rest of the world in developing an effective research capacity".

30.08.2005 Five years ago the idea of digital television in Africa would have seemed absurd. Now two countries have announced their intention to offer digital television. Senegal seems to have been first into the game, launching a pilot at the end of last year with 200 trial subscribers.

05.05.2005 The World Bank has pledged $30 million to the Senegalese government in order to strengthen its capacity to implement poverty reduction projects through administrative reform and decentralisation. It is hoped that the credit will assist Senegal in reaching its targets for the MDGs.

05.05.2005 With the help of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Senegal is hoping to introduce more expensive but more effective drugs nationwide in a bid to improve the country's success in fighting malaria. An earlier 2003 programme was discontinued due to poor implementation.

27.04.2005 Despite the criticism aimed at many water privatisation schemes across Africa, Senegal has provided a successful model of a public/private partnership in water management. Senegalaise des Eaux, a subsidiary of the French firm Saur, the fourth largest water company in the world, has contributed in reconstructing Dakar's ailing water system, with the government claiming that the city's needs are met until 2015.

27.04.2005 There are fears that the annual pilgrimage of over a million Muslims to Touba, a town affected by a serious cholera outbreak, may cause the disease to spread to neighbouring countries.