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Two months after school resumed in Senegal scores of students still have not returned to their regular classrooms, which remain under up to a half-metre of floodwater.
As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sédhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.
Pa Musa Sanyang, an APRC stalwart alias Guerilla, has strongly condemned the recently revealed plot by Koukoie Samba Sanyang and President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal against the government of The Gambia.
Following Daily Observer's revelation of the Senegalese president's collaborative plot with the Gambian dissident, Koukoie Sanyang to destabilise.
The government of our sister Republic of Senegal has recently come under the light. First it was an attempt made by President Wade to bribe an IMF delegate to the country; this aroused suspicion that the government of Senegal especially the Office of the President is involved in the highest level of corruption. Now is even more shocking; a letter obtained by the Daily Observer written by a Gambian ...
This is the scoop of the year 2009. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal is in close contact with Koukoie Samba Sanyang, a Gambian dissident and leader of the July 1981 obortive coup.
Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children's health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years.
With presidential elections in Senegal still two years away, the tide is conspicuously turning against the ruling Parti Democratic Senegalais (PDS) of the ageing and politically savvy Abdoulaye Wade.
Senegalese authorities have detailed initial plans for a new national carrier, Senegal Airlines, aimed at succeeding the troubled Air Senegal International venture early next year.
The Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) Youths Fans Club, recently returned back from Ziguinchor, in Senegal, where they visited their Senegalese counterparts; Union de Jenness Triavaille Liberelle.
Two ministers from the sister Republics of Guinea and Senegal yesterday paid a courtesy call on the vice president and minister of WomenÂ's Affairs, Ajaratou Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
Forestry officials from the Senegalese region of Casamance have commended The Gambia for being one of the countries in the sub-region to be admired for its successes and giant strides in community forest management.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission headed by Norbert Funke visited Senegal during November 4 – 18, 2009 to conduct discussions for the fourth review of the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) and the second review of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF).
Though Senegal has developed an extensive and modern telecommunications infrastructure, overall penetration is still low resulting in attractive opportunities for new entrants to establish call centres, computer factories and to develop software.
The revelation by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Odein Ajumogobia that Nigeria is considering the possibility of processing some of its crude oil in Senegal from where the refined product would then be imported has been received with rude shock.
One of President Abdoulaye Wade's several great pan-African projects which the ageing Senegalese leader had wanted to meet the December 2009 deadline has turned out a fiasco, chiefly due to inadequate and timely funding.
In light of recent allegations involving a gift made to an IMF staff member by the Senegalese authorities, the Managing Director asked the Acting Ethics Officer of the IMF to conduct an independent investigation into the matter. The Acting Ethics Officer has reported that based on reliable information which he has received from both inside and outside the IMF, he has made findings of fact that are ...
TWO weeks ago, Senegal's prime minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, confirmed that Alex Segura, the outgoing president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was given a briefcase that contained almost $200,000 (about sh400m) as a 'present' after having a dinner with the country's president Abdoulaye Wade last month.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has finally confirmed reports by the Senegalese press that the Senegalese authorities were involved in a bribery scandal involving the outgoing IMF resident representative, Mr Alex Segura.
THIS is the full inside story of how leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State met in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, last week to deliberate on the way forward after what is being described as a state chapter ruptured by incessant crises.
The Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars would now face Senegal in the second rounds of the Africa home base championship, CHAN.
Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say.
Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.
DUNCAN Mugabe will once again play Italian seed three Claudio Grassi in the second round of the Senegal F2 Futures tennis tournament in Dakar today, after overcoming American Janicije Karic in straight sets (6-2 6-0) in the first round on Monday.
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