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[UN News] In the deadliest shipwreck recorded so far this year, at least 140 people have drowned after a vessel carrying around 200 migrants sank off the Senegalese coast, the UN migration agency confirmed on Thursday.

Le président sénégalais a annoncé dimanche la composition de la nouvelle équipe gouvernementale, que rejoignent plusieurs ténors de l’opposition.

Le chef de l’État a dissous mercredi son gouvernement, une équipe qui l’accompagnait depuis sa réélection en 2019.

[DW] The official death toll has been revised after a vessel sank off the Senegalese coast last week. It is the deadliest shipwreck recorded in 2020 so far.

[allAfrica] Cape Town — The dissolution of the government and the dismissal of the leader of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), Aminata Touré, are the dominant subjects analyzed and commented on by the newspapers, according to the Senegalese Press Agency on Thursday.

[allAfrica] Cape Town — President Macky Sall dissolved his 32-strong government team after 18 months, a government statement said.

[WHO] Dakar, 22 October 2020 – Senegal’s Institut Pasteur was one of only two laboratories in Africa able to test for COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. The institution’s director, Dr Amadou Sall, speaks about the efforts Senegal has made to strengthen testing as well as …

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), condemns the denial of accreditation to Senegalese online media by the authorities of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF), and calls on them to reconsider this unpopular measure in this age of the Internet.

Loin des rumeurs – démenties – sur le départ de son numéro deux, la compagnie nationale est plus que jamais en ordre de bataille face à ses challengers en Afrique de l’Ouest, mais repousse le lancement de certaines lignes long-courrier. 

[The Point] Basirou Sene, Senegalese High Commissioner to The Gambia has told this medium that his country still has its borders closed.