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U.S. - Africa Infrastructure Conference to Bring Representatives of the Public and Private Sectors Together


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Senegal: Country's Rural Poor to Benefit From UN-Backed Project

The United Nations agency tasked with alleviating the plight of the world's rural poor announced plans today to provide $15 million to a project in Senegal that aims to help families living in the West African country's "groundnut basin."

  UN News
Senegal: Going Solar Could Help Poor

Investing in solar energy could bring electricity to millions of Senegalese, significantly reduce electricity bills in the long term, and attract millions of dollars in development funding under the UN-brokered Clean Development Mechanism, says the UN, but only if investors step in.

  IRIN
Africa: Wiping Out Hunger - One Fruit Fly at a Time

For years, farmers in one of Senegal's most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests.

  IRIN
Senegal: Thousands Displaced from Wetlands

Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in two districts of Dakar where houses should never have been built, according to Seydou Sysall, the former Senegalese minister of development and urban planning.

  IRIN
Senegal: Minister Sues Jailed Newspaper Editor for Defamation [press release]

El Malick Seck, jailed editor-in-chief of the privately-owned newspaper "24 Heures Chrono", will appear in a Dakar court on 28 October 2008 to answer defamation charges brought against him by the country's Minister of the Interior, Sheikh Tidiane Sy.

  MFWA
Senegal: Country And France in Legal Battle Over Ferry Disaster

As many Senegalese have been doing for the past six years now, Mrs Mame Madior Boye who was the Prime Minister in 2002 vividly remembers a day in September that year, marked by some as the "darkest nightmare" in the nation's recent history.

  Nation
Senegal: Malnutrition at Crisis Level in Northeast

Poor rains and rising rice prices have contributed to increasing malnutrition to alarming levels in at least three regions of Senegal.

  IRIN
West Africa: New Corruption Index Gives Region Mixed Report

Nine West African countries shot up while nine others sank lower in the 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranking of perceptions of corruption in 180 countries.

  IRIN
Senegal: Street Children at Risk of Exploitation

The Senegalese capital, Dakar, is filled with street children from villages in Guinea Bissau.

  IPS


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