Full Coverage: Senegal
05/06/2008
YK:n pyrinnöt ruokakriisin ratkaisemiseksi eivät saa kaikilta kiitosta. Senegalin presidentti Abdoulaye Wade haukkui FAO:n turhaksi ja tehottomaksi järjestöksi.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [United Nations] [Food] Image: Abdoulaye Wade © International Development Research Centre
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02/20/2008
Put your questions to Molly Melching and the women of Senegal, OneWorld's People of the Year.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Gender] Image: Molly Melching and women from the village of Malicounda Bambara gather with thousands of others to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the village's decision to abandon female genital cutting; August 2007. © Tostan
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01/22/2008
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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. Related: [West Africa] [Ethics & Value Systems] [Codes of Conduct] [Civil Society] [Culture] [Sexuality] [Gender] [Youth] [Children] |
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10/26/2007
Hip hop yhteiskunnallisena protestimusiikkina ei ole kuollut - ainakaan Afrikassa. Uusi dokumentti kuvaa senegalilaisia hoppareita ja heidän rooliaan viime vuosien kamppailuissa demokratian puolesta.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Youth] [Democracy] Image: © Christopher Moore / African Underground
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10/26/2007
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."
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Poverty] [Culture] [Activism] [Democracy] [Governance] Image: Bouks from the Sen Kumpe crew (Medine, Dakar, Senegal). © Christopher Moore / African Underground
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09/04/2007
Monet työttömät nuoret senegalilaiset kokeilevat onneansa kiinalaisen tavaran kaupustelijoina. Senegalin hallitusta taas huolestuttaa epätasapainoinen kauppasuhde Kiinan kanssa.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Trade] |
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08/12/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Al Jazeera + Award for secondary school programmme Related: [West Africa] [United States] |
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08/02/2007
Senegalin pääkaupunkiin Dakariin perustettu lähiökirjasto otti askeleen kohti digiaikaa. Kirjasto hyödyntää kotikirjastojen arkistointiin tarkoitettua, Internetissä toimivaa LibraryThing-sovellusta. Läheisen koulun oppilaat ovat alkaneet kirjoittamaan omia kirja-arvosteluja, jotka liitetään myöhemmin LibraryThingiin. Tietoverkkojen avulla pienet kirjastot voivat laajentaa mahdollisuuksia kirjojen lainaamiseen muista lähikirjastoista.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Capacity Building] [Children] [Education] [Intermediate Technology] [ICT] |
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06/26/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Policy Innovations Image: The Multi-Functioning Platform © / Policy Innovations
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03/13/2007
More...Related: [Africa] [Southern Africa] [South Asia] [Environmental Activism] [Health] [Human Rights] [War and Peace] Image: The Birds Eye View Film Festival in Partnership with Action Aid
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12/06/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [West Africa] [Guinea] |
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10/18/2006
Näitä kahta asiaa senegalilaiset Albert Ndong ja Souleymane Diop eniten hämmästelivät syyskuisella Suomen vierailullaan. He tutustuivat suomalaiseen koulu- ja kirjastolaitokseen ja luennoivat yliopistoissa syyskuussa osana ulkoministeriön tiedotustuella toteutettavaa Taf taf –lähiöhanketta.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Development] [Education] Image: Senegalilainen Albert Ndong seurasi opetusta Suomessa
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10/17/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network |
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08/01/2006
Read moreElokuussa järjestettävä Remppa-partioleiri kerää suomalaisia ja senegalilaisia partiolaisia yhteen Diofiorissa, Senegalissa, jossa Pääkaupunkiseudun Partiolaiset ovat tukeneet paikallisen terveyskeskuksen rakentamista. Matkalle lähtee Suomesta joukko pääkaupunkiseutulaisia partiolaisia. From: Ulkoministeriö Related: [International Cooperation] |
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07/03/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Chad] [Africa] |
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03/01/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: Plan International Related: [Africa] [Norway] [Children] |
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01/30/2006
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.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [France] [Migration] [Globalization] |
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01/05/2006
Syksyllä mediassa näytettiin afrikkalaisia siirtolaisia, jotka yrittivät päästä Europpaan Marokon ja Espanjan rajan yli. Suurin osa heistä oli kotoisin Senegalista ja ympäröivistä maista. Nyt Senegal yrittää saada palautettuja nuoria kiinnostumaan elinkeinosta maanviljelyksessä.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Agriculture] [Youth] Image: © New Internationalist
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12/16/2005
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!
Read moreFrom: Africa Action Related: [Rwanda] [Nicaragua] [Mauritania] [Madagascar] [Ethiopia] [Development] [Aid] [Debt] [Activism] Image: Madagascar, facing a nutrition crisis, is now in danger of losing the debt relief it was promised. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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