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In Senegal's southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.
A two days stake holder's workshop and launching of the Gambia-Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Project "BaNafaa" was recently held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
Three years after asking Senegal to prosecute the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, the African Union should ensure that the trial finally begins to move forward, eight African and international human rights groups said today. African heads of state will come together in Sirte, Libya on July 1, 2009, for an AU summit.
Mr Amadou Niang, Senegalese Minister of Commerce, has called for a social approach into the negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between the European Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
OVER A CENTURY AND A HALF AFTER THE ABOlition of slave trade, Goree Island off the coast of Senegal still stands as a stark reminder of one of the darkest moments of Africa, and indeed humanity.
DESPITE ITS INFAMY courtesy of its slave trading past, Goree Island is also home to churches and buildings that have put it on the world map and has been visited by thousands of tourists and leaders from around the world, from former US president Bill Clinton and former South African president Nelson Mandela.
Sixteen (16) people, twelve Senegalese and four Gambian citizens who have been charged with terrorism on Wednesday 24 June, were escorted to the Brikama Magistrates' Court amid heavy security by the police intervention personnel (PIU), armed with guns, batons, and dressed in riot gears with gas canisters.
Amadou Saine, deputy permanent secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters, yesterday presided over the official inauguration of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sponsored sustainable fisheries project for The Gambia and Senegal, at a ceremony held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi.
