In Senegal, a rape case brought by a young woman against a prominent politician has laid bare the state of sexual and gender-based violence in the West African country which is often considered the “beacon of African democracy”. In 2021, Adji Sarr, a former employee at a massage parlour in Senegal alleged that she was […]
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Internet based communication in Senegal has been cut off, as the country enters a fifth day of unrest over upcoming elections. The government has blocked the internet in the country, leaving relatives and friends around the world unable to contact loved ones. On Sunday, Senegal’s Minister of communication, telecommunication and digital economy announced they were […]
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Eleven newborn babies have died in a hospital fire at Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh in Senegal’s Western city of Tivaouane. “I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire at the neonatal department of the public hospital,” Macky Sall, the president of Senegal tweeted on […]
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Six African countries including Nigeria and South Africa are set to start manufacturing the mRNA vaccine as a dearth of vaccine access equity follows the COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. According to WHO, mRNA vaccines are molecule vaccines that teach human cells how to make a protein that will […]
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International human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called for restraint in Senegal over excessive use of force on protesters during a country-wide demonstration resulting in the death of eight persons last week. The call follows an announcement by Senegal’s Movement to Defend Democracy (M2D), a group of opposition parties and activists, that a three-day country-wide […]
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Dairy Sow, 20, who has gained a reputation as one of the most promising young Senegalese nationals, has gone missing in Paris. “A rising star who is the pride of the people” was how Senegal’s President, Macky Sall, described young Sow last August after she authored a novel, Sous le Visage d’un Ange (Under the […]
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Four ECOWAS leaders – Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’Ivoire and Nana Akufo Addo of Ghana are expected in Bamako on Thursday, 23rd July, in continuation of the regional efforts to end the political crisis in Mali, official sources said. The move follows several days of mediation […]
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