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Friday Dec 4 | International Herald Tribune

The Songs of Senegal

"I LOVE the evening in Dakar," says Youssou N'Dour , glancing out the darkened window of an S.U.V. at the nocturnal crowds streaming into his nightclub, Thiossane, as a warm West African breeze rustles the palms and stirs up the dirt in the unpaved parking lot.

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Mon Nov 30, 2009

Panapress

Environment

A top member of the Gabonese civil society, Marc Ona, has condemned the decision of President Ali Bongo to ban wood export from January 2 0 10, saying the decision was unrealistic and unenforceable.

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

Panapress

Environment

Greenpeace on Thursday welcomed China's announcement of its carbon intensity target, just ten days ahead of the Copenhagen summit in Denmark, expected to clinch a global climate deal.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

Latest News by the Government

Senegal saga shocks Montsho

Amantle Montsho has expressed shock over the Botswana National Olympics Committee and the Botswana Athletics Association officials recent disclaimer concerning who facilitated her trip back to Senegal.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, Africa, World News,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Voice of America

Jewish Community Offers 99 Sheep to Needy Locals in Senegal

Ninety-nine sheep were chosen to represent the 99 names for God in Islam and were given to underprivileged Senegalese families ahead of Muslim religious holiday of Tabaski Anne Look Dakar Photo: VOA photo - A. Look A man smiles as he receives his sheep for Tabaski "We wanted to do a symbolic gesture between Israel and Senegal, between the Jewish ...

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, World News, Africa, Islam,

Wed Nov 18, 2009

USA Today

Senegal Airlines commits to buy 6 Airbus jets at Dubai Airshow

Airbus said Wednesday it agreed to sell six jetliners to newly created Senegal Airlines, giving the European plane maker bragging rights to more than $5 billion worth of orders at a subdued Dubai Airshow.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, World News, Africa, United Arab Emirates

Sun Nov 15, 2009

BBC

African Renaissance statue

A gigantic, multi-million dollar bronze statue rising over the skyline of the Senegalese capital is causing a colossal storm for the man who conceived it.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Inter Press Service

AGRICULTURE-SENEGAL: Groundnut Production in Freefall

New varieties of groundnuts that are suited to the local soil and climate are part of arresting falling production.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, World News, Africa, Agriculture, Science, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Life, Food, Vegetables

The West Australian

French-Senegalese woman scoops top French book prize

French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye on Monday won France's top literary prize for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, World News, Africa

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Times Online

Senegal: peace and wintersun

The French and Portuguese left their mark but this is Africa through and through - wildlife, wild music and winter sun The children eyed us hesitantly, unsure whether to approach us or stay back.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

Boing Boing

Senegal: President builds $27 million statue, claims tourism profits over "intellectual rights."

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is reported to have commissioned a 160-ft high bronze statue commemorating the "African Renaissance." The AP says it costs $27 million to build.

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Tue Sep 29, 2009

Cyrusfarivar.com

African Renaissance statue in Dakar angers locals

Apparently, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has commissioned a 160-ft high bronze statue commemorating the "African Renaissance." The statue, "shows a muscular man in a heroic posture, outstretched arms wrapped around his wife and child, who is balanced on one of his biceps," reports the Associated Press .

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Critics of Dakar's new statue say the 17m should have been spent on the poor

Women walk past rubbish heaps and unfinished homes in a neighborhood at the base of the nearly-completed 50-meter-high bronze statue dubbed the Monument of the African Renaissance in Dakar, Senegal.

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Fri Sep 25, 2009

The Age

Anger at Senegal's giant statue

ITS advocates describe it as Africa's long-overdue answer to the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Travel, World News, Africa, North Korea, Asia, Abdoulaye Wade

Thu Sep 24, 2009

The Stranger

Paris: Not a Whore But a Mother

In this film, the immigrant begins in Africa, in Senegal, in Dakar - a poor city with too much sun, dirty buildings, and dusty roads.

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Related Topix: Paris, France, World News, Arts, Cinema, Senegal, Africa, Travel

Wed Sep 23, 2009

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Rising amid squalor, Senegal monument stirs anger

But on a rutted trash-strewn path below, the old Africa is still in view: one where a poverty-stricken population endures incessant power blackouts and flooding - and considers the $27 million monument just another outrageous example of wasteful government spending.

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Tue Sep 22, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Obscure World Heritage Sites

Twenty extraordinary UNESCO World Heritage Sites which you have probably never heard of.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

The Star Online

Globalisation brings more Africans to Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR : If you had walked down the streets of Kuala Lumpur some 10 years ago, the chances of bumping into an African were quite slim.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Malaysia, Travel, Malaysia Travel, Senegal, Africa

Wed Sep 02, 2009

Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

Article: The best ideas are born in African cities

According a recent column by Africa correspondent Koert Lindijer, hell is in Africa and it's a city.

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Related Topix: Senegal, World News, Africa, Travel, Kenya,

Mon Aug 31, 2009

Panapress

Environment

The UN is to launch a Global Climate Week on 21-25 Septemb er to help push for an international deal on climate change, a UN statement said Saturday.

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