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How Gardening Is Helping Ex-Offenders Reintegrate Into Society

[Deutsche Welle] In Senegal, social activism and hip hop are being cultivated in a center run by rapper Fou Malade. Here he has been rehabilitating ex-offenders through a series of workshops including music, graffiti and gardening.

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Le Sénégal réfute des  » accusations graves et erronées  » d’Amnesty

Le gouvernement sénégalais a réfuté vendredi les « accusations graves et erronées » d’Amnesty International dont un rapport a récemment critiqué la situation des droits de l’homme dans ce pays africain réputé démocratique, à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de 2019.

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Sira Labs’ Django Bathily On Building a Network of Incubators Across Francophone Africa

[Innovation in Africa] There’s no easy way to break out of a small country market but it’s essential for a start-up to find growth. Francophone Africa is almost completely a mosaic of small country markets. Russell Southwood talks to Django Bathily, Founder, Sira Labs about how he’s creating an incubator …

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Sénégal : Amnesty International dénonce le  » manque d’indépendance de la justice « 

Dans un rapport très critique, Amnesty International épingle la situation des droits humains et le manque d’indépendance de la justice au Sénégal. François Patuel, chercheur spécialiste de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, coauteur du rapport, pointe  » une différence entre l’image que veut se donner le Sénégal et ce qui est fait …

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Going Digital to Tackle Traffic Accidents and Crime – Senegal and Rwanda Adopt Two Very Different Approaches

[Balancing Act] London -African Governments are slowly becoming more ambitious about how to tackle fundamental problems digitally. The noisy and often badly driven public transport and taxi drivers – particularly motorcycle drivers – are often a threat to life and limb and are hot spots for crime. Russell Southwood looks …

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African Women Wonders – Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura Is the Most Powerful Woman in International Sports

[This is Africa] FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, ranked number one on the Forbes 2018 Most Powerful Women in International Sports list, is determined that, on her watch, the world’s most widely loved sport will be inclusive of all.

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High-Profile Terror Trial Speaks to an Emerging Threat in Senegal

[IRIN] Unlike other nearby West African countries like Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali, Senegal has so far been spared a major attack by Islamist extremists. But experts say an unprecedented trial of dozens of Senegalese terror suspects that concluded two weeks ago in Dakar is a timely wake-up call …

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