Full Coverage: Senegal
06.05.2008
YK:n pyrinnöt ruokakriisin ratkaisemiseksi eivät saa kaikilta kiitosta. Senegalin presidentti Abdoulaye Wade haukkui FAO:n turhaksi ja tehottomaksi järjestöksi.
more...From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related topics/regions: [United Nations] [Food] Image: Abdoulaye Wade © International Development Research Centre
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20.02.2008
Put your questions to Molly Melching and the women of Senegal, OneWorld's People of the Year.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [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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22.01.2008
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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 topics/regions: [West Africa] [Ethics & value systems] [Codes of conduct] [Civil society] [Culture] [Sexuality] [Gender] [Youth] [Children] |
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26.10.2007
Hip hop yhteiskunnallisena protestimusiikkina ei ole kuollut - ainakaan Afrikassa. Uusi dokumentti kuvaa senegalilaisia hoppareita ja heidän rooliaan viime vuosien kamppailuissa demokratian puolesta.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Youth] [Democracy] Image: © Christopher Moore / African Underground
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26.10.2007
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."
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Poverty] [Culture] [Activism] [Democracy] [Governance] Image: Bouks from the Sen Kumpe crew (Medine, Dakar, Senegal). © Christopher Moore / African Underground
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04.09.2007
Monet työttömät nuoret senegalilaiset kokeilevat onneansa kiinalaisen tavaran kaupustelijoina. Senegalin hallitusta taas huolestuttaa epätasapainoinen kauppasuhde Kiinan kanssa.
more...From: Suomen IPS Related topics/regions: [Trade] |
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12.08.2007
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.
more...From: Al Jazeera + Award for secondary school programmme Related topics/regions: [West Africa] [United States] |
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02.08.2007
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.
more...From: global.finland Related topics/regions: [Capacity building] [Children] [Education] [Intermediate technology] [ICT] |
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26.06.2007
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.
more...From: Policy Innovations Image: The Multi-Functioning Platform © / Policy Innovations
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13.03.2007
More...Related topics/regions: [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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06.12.2006
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.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [West Africa] [Guinea] |
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18.10.2006
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.
more...From: global.finland Related topics/regions: [Development] [Education] Image: Senegalilainen Albert Ndong seurasi opetusta Suomessa
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17.10.2006
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.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network |
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01.08.2006
more...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. From: global.finland Related topics/regions: [International cooperation] |
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03.07.2006
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.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Chad] [Africa] |
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01.03.2006
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.
more...From: Plan International Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Norway] [Children] |
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30.01.2006
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.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [France] [Migration] [Globalisation] |
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05.01.2006
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.
more...From: Suomen IPS Related topics/regions: [Agriculture] [Youth] Image: © New Internationalist
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16.12.2005
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!
more...From: Africa Action Related topics/regions: [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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