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Abdoulaye Wade
05/06/2008 YK:n pyrinnöt ruokakriisin ratkaisemiseksi eivät saa kaikilta kiitosta. Senegalin presidentti Abdoulaye Wade haukkui FAO:n turhaksi ja tehottomaksi järjestöksi.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [United Nations] [Food]
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.
02/20/2008 Put your questions to Molly Melching and the women of Senegal, OneWorld's People of the Year.
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From: 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
01/22/2008
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.
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Related: [West Africa] [Ethics & Value Systems] [Codes of Conduct] [Civil Society] [Culture] [Sexuality] [Gender] [Youth] [Children]
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.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Youth] [Democracy]
Image: © Christopher Moore / African Underground
Bouks from the Sen Kumpe crew (Medine, Dakar, Senegal).
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."
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Poverty] [Culture] [Activism] [Democracy] [Governance]
Image: Bouks from the Sen Kumpe crew (Medine, Dakar, Senegal). © Christopher Moore / African Underground
09/04/2007 Monet työttömät nuoret senegalilaiset kokeilevat onneansa kiinalaisen tavaran kaupustelijoina. Senegalin hallitusta taas huolestuttaa epätasapainoinen kauppasuhde Kiinan kanssa.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related: [Trade]
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.
From: Al Jazeera
+ Award for secondary school programmme
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Related: [West Africa] [United States]
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.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Capacity Building] [Children] [Education] [Intermediate Technology] [ICT]
The Multi-Functioning Platform
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.
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From: Policy Innovations
Image: The Multi-Functioning Platform © / Policy Innovations
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.
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From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Related: [West Africa] [Guinea]
Senegalilainen Albert Ndong seurasi opetusta Suomessa
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.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Development] [Education]
Image: Senegalilainen Albert Ndong seurasi opetusta Suomessa
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.
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From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
08/01/2006
Elokuussa 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.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [International Cooperation]
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.
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From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Related: [Chad] [Africa]
06/07/2006 A philanthropic foundation for Africa has been set up by the the Ford Foundation, based in Senegal.
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Related: [Africa]
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.
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From: Plan International
Related: [Africa] [Norway] [Children]
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.
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Related: [United Kingdom] [France] [Migration] [Globalization]
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.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related: [Agriculture] [Youth]
Madagascar, facing a nutrition crisis, is now in danger of losing the debt relief it was promised.
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!
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From: 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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