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Dakar - Senegalese music icon and opposition activist Youssou Ndour was injured in the leg on Tuesday after being hit by a projectile at the scene of a banned rally in Dakar, his entourage told AFP. "Youssou Ndour was injured in the left leg, he has been seen by a doctor, but he doesn't want to make a big issue
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Dakar - Africa's top envoy was expected in Senegal on Tuesday ahead of tense weekend polls, with the opposition hoping he can talk 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade out of seeking a third term. Wade's camp said Olusegun Obasanjo was welcome to observe the February 26 election but made it clear there was nothing to mediate for the former Nigerian president.
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Dakar - A Senegalese man died in a Dakar suburb after he was accidentally wounded during clashes between police and protestors, a religious leader was quoted on Monday as saying by the state news agency APS. "The victim was not demonstrating, he had gone to the bakery to buy bread," Abdoul Aziz Ndoye, a Muslim cleric and the young man's
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Kaolack — In the early morning of Saturday 18 February, the office of a local branch of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais of President Abdoulaye Wade was ransacked and burned. We went to take a look. There were serious demonstrations on Friday afternoon and evening in the Seneglaese capital, Dakar, especially after the police made the uniquely insensitive move of firing
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Ziguinchor — As the body count rises from the conflict between members of the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) and the Senegalese army, Casamancais are starting to lose hope that they will ever see a path to peace. The latest in a string of killings by rebels took place on 14 and 15 February in Sindian (near
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Dakar braced Saturday for more protests just days before presidential polls in which President Abdoulaye Wade is seeking a highly disputed third term which has upset one of Africa's most stable nations. Some 23,000 soldiers and paramilitary police were to begin voting Saturday as the western African nation is gripped by tension after days of opposition protests against the 85-year-old
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Violence broke out late Friday in Tivaouane, seat of Senegal's largest Islamic brotherhood the Tidiane, where the mayor's office was burned down after police hurled teargas into a Dakar mosque, the APS news agency reported. Protesters set up burning barricades in streets around Tivaouane in western Senegal after riots erupted in the capital Dakar as police tried to quell a
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Documentary filmmaking holds a special place in the history of African women's cinema. In 1972, Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye became the first sub-Saharan African woman to make a commercially distributed feature film when she directed "Kaddu Beykat". The film, a mixture of fiction and documentary, depicts the economic problems suffered by Senegalese village farmers because of agriculture policies that Faye
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Senegalese police engaged in running battles with protesters in downtown Dakar Friday as they attempted to stamp out a planned protest against President Abdoulaye Wade's third term bid. Burning debris and rocks littered the streets around Independence Square as riot police on trucks and foot chased protesters to prevent them from converging, firing volleys of tear gas throughout the afternoon.
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Senegal's opposition planned to defy a ban on protests Friday and rally downtown against President Abdoulaye Wade's third term candidacy after a week in which police roundly thwarted their protests. Riot police fired tear gas in side streets around Independence Square and chased small groups of people attempting to come closer as the normally bustling centre of town cleared out
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Dakar - Police opened fire with tear gas on protesters who had gone ahead with a sleep-in Thursday at a downtown square, even though the government had banned the demonstration being held one week before the country's presidential election. It's the second day that protesters have continued their demonstrations despite the government's refusal to authorise the gathering. Senegalese police are
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A soldier was killed by presumed separatist rebels in Senegal's troubled southern Casamance region on Wednesday, a day after clashes left three troops dead, a military source told AFP. "The rebels ambushed one of our units which was carrying out a search operation. There was a confrontation and we lost one man and four were seriously injured," said the source
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Dakar - Senegalese police have fired tear-gas at opposition protesters who are demonstrating ahead of next week's presidential election. Several hundred people turned out on Wednesday in defiance of a government ban and attempted to reach the presidential palace before being blocked by a column of soldiers. Senegal's interior minister had warned that the government has the right to "restrict
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Dakar - Senegal's government has banned an opposition march planned for the centre of Dakar Wednesday to protest against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid to run for a third term in February polls. Interior Minister Ousmane Ngom told the opposition in a statement received by AFP: "I inform you that the demonstrations you plan cannot happen at the foreseen date and
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Suspected separatist rebels have killed four Senegalese soldiers and wounded nine others in a gun battle in the southern Casamance region, two military sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The fighting, just under two weeks before Senegal's presidential election, comes amid a spike in violence in a low-level independence struggle that has run for three decades. "The army had dislodged some
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday wooed voters in the troubled Casamance with a new peace plan as mobilisation against his disputed third term appeared to run out of steam. Wade, 85, who has campaigned energetically throughout the country over the past week while brushing off criticism over his third term candidacy, offered separatist rebels in the restive region a
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday took his reelection campaign to Casamance, a region wracked by a rebellion he had vowed to solve in 100 days after his election in 2000. Wade, 85, who has faced a storm of criticism and violent protests over his third term candidacy in February 26 polls, arrived in seaside tourist magnet Cap Skirring on
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Senegal have fired the coach of its national football team, Amara Traore, along with his technical staff, following the team's poor performances at the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), the national news agency reported. "It was a failure and it is the coach's responsibility," said Augustin Senghor, president of the Senegalese Football Federation, reported the Senegalese Press Agency. "Decisions had
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Dakar - As Senegal's presidential hopefuls seek to woo voters ahead of this month's election, an equally serious courting process is underway to curry favour with the nation's powerful Islamic brotherhoods. The Islamic groups' influence colours every nuance of daily life in Senegal, but it is when elections roll around that the nation watches most closely for signs of political
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Dakar - Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade, whose re-election bid has drawn fierce criticism abroad, said in his opening campaign rally that France and the United States had no right to ask him to step aside. "I do not seek the interest of the toubabs [Westerners], but that of the Senegalese people," the 85-year-old leader said late on Sunday in Mbacke,
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Dakar — The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master's student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term of office. On Jan. 31, the opposition movement and local protestors, including students, gathered at the Place de Obelix to voice their anger at
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Opposition candidates in Senegal's upcoming election pledged Saturday a new round of protests aimed at stopping President Abdoulaye Wade from seeking a constitutionally questionable third term. Internationally acclaimed singer Youssou Ndour, whose own candidacy in the February 26 elections has been rejected by the Constitutional Council, called on the Senegalese people to take to the capital Dakar's streets Sunday, the
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Dakar — "I never thought Senegal would get to a stage when the police would beat us and shoot at us just because we are asking the president to leave power. I never thought that some would die in a brutal way for merely exercising their democratic right to protest," says a 24-year-old Senegalese named Lemzo. He is a former
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Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade mocked protests against his bid for a third term as a "light breeze" as the opposition mulled its next move Thursday and the West distanced itself from its erstwhile ally. The UN rights chief Navi Pillay said she was disturbed by reports that police in Senegal used "excessive force" against anti-government protestors ahead of a February
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Senegal's opposition on Thursday vowed new protests over President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term as the veteran leader dismissed the deadly tensions as a "normal" pre-election phenomenon. The June 23 Movement (M23) called for a prayer meeting in central Dakar on Friday for those killed during protests against Wade's controversial candidacy for a third presidential term in February
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