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Senegal’s football normalisation committee approved by FIFA
A football normalisation committee has been set up by Senegal following a meeting Tuesday in Zurich, Switzerland, between the Senegalese delegation led by the...
Higher pneumonia prevalence among Senegalese children
The Director of the Institute for Training and Research on Population, Development and Reproductive Health (IPDSR), Guélaye Sall, has said that acute breathing infections...
Akon : Singer rapper or just a professional liar ?
Akon, the successful R&B and Rap artist, had people believe that he spent four years in prison on heavy charges. His “bad boy”...
BADEA director arrives in Senegal
The director general of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), Abdelaziz Khelef, was billed to arrive in Senegal Thursday as part...
Regional francophone bourse closes slightly higher
The regional bourse for French West Africa (BRVM ) in Abidjan closed its trading on Monday slightly higher than the previous session. The BRVM...
Senegal : Police arrest 24 and raid tv station
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned the assault of a independent TV channel reporter, the raid against his station and the...
Microsoft helps develop African micro-enterprise
US software giant, Microsoft, is to help African governments create local computer industry and support small-scale enterprises to become competitive on the world market.
The...
Water strategy formulation should involve women
A Senegalese official, Mrs Anta Seck, on Wednesday urged African states to give greater responsibility to women in formulating strategies for access to drinking...
Djoliba to meet Guinea’s Satellite in CAF Cup
Djoliba of Mali will meet Satellite of Guinea Sunday at the Modibo Keita stadium in Bamako in the preliminaries of the Confederation of African...
More Mauritanian refugees return
Some 257 Mauritanian refugees arrived Thursday in Rosso, southern Mauritania, after 19 years in exile in Senegal, an official source told panapress here. The...
113 illegal immigrants seized in Mauritania
Security forces arrested some 113 illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan off Nouadhibou, 465 km north of the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, between 9 and 12 March,...
OIC 11th summit opens in Dakar
The 11th summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) opened here Thursday with delegations from the organisation's 57 member states in attendance....
Ministers agree to review the OIC Charter
Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Tuesday reached an agreement to review the OIC charter, official sources said. "We have just...
Islamic Solidarity Fund now operational
A microfinance programme of about 500 million dollars for the Least Developed Countries of the Islamic Ummah has been adopted by the governing body...
Rights’ NGOs seek end to impunity in Darfur
A group of civil society NGOs, meeting in Dakar ahead of the 11th summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), has urged...
Arabic students in Senegal call for universal knowledge
Arabic language students in Senegal have called on the Islamic Ummah to expand the borders of knowledge so that universal knowledge could be shared...
Sudan: EU Soldier Missing
One soldier is missing after a vehicle of the European Union's military force in Chad (EUFOR) strayed across the border into Sudan and was...
CAF Matches: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Benin…
Results and brief commentaries of matches between:
Ashantigold and Sahel, Africa Sport and Tonnerre, Entente Sportive and Port Authority as well as announced match between...
Gambia deports 64 street children to Senegal
The Gambian Immigration Department has deported 64 street children, locally known as "almudus", who were rounded up in Banjul and Serrekunda and identified as...
Senegal’s Wade visits Libya
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade arrived in Libya Thursday evening at the head of a strong delegation of his government on a visit. President Wade...
AI Senegal opposes legalised homosexuality
The chairman of the national Council of Amnesty Senegal, Samba Guissé, has called on all affiliate groups of the Senegalese chapter of Amnesty International...
Ethiopia launches national nutrition strategy
Faced with a heavy disease burden caused by prevalent maternal and child undernourishment, Ethiopia Thursday launched its first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) to ensure...
Libya reiterates Africa’s demand for two UN Security Council seats
Libya on Friday reiterated Africa's position that the continent should be given two permanent seats with all privileges, including the veto, on the United...
CAN 2008 first round narrowly misses all-time goal scoring record
The 70 goals scored in the first round of the 26th Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana are one goal less than the highest...
CAN 2008 : Tunisia and Angola end in a draw and qualify
Tunisia and Angola encounter Cameroun and Egypt, next Sunday, in the quarter finals of the African Cup of Nations. The two group D leaders...
CAN 2008: Top scorer battle in full swing
CAN 2008: Top scorer battle in full swing
The contest for the top scorer award at the ongoing Af rica Cup of Nations in Ghana...
CAN 2008 : Senegal’s coach resigns
The coach of Senegal's national team, Henri Kasperczak has given up his job after the humiliating game they lost against Angola on Sunday afternoon...
Senegal’s Coach Resigns
Senegal's coach resigns
The head coach of the Senegalese national football squad , Henri Kasperczak, has resigned following his team's 1-3 to Angola in the...
French official to discuss French-African relations with African students
French Secretary of State for Co-operation, Jean-Marie Bockel, is to discuss the French-African relations with African students next Wednesday in Saint-Denis, near the French...
CAN 2008 : Senegal and Tunisia in a draw : 2-2
Senegal and Tunesia shared their scoreline right in the middle, Wednesday, when they entered into the 2008 African Nations Cup battlefield. The Carthage...