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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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Actress Anne Diop’s Racially Attacked Over Orange-Coloured Comic Book Role

[This is Africa] Senegalese-American Anne Diop is experiencing racist backlash from fans for her role as DC Comic’s Starfire. Her response has been: « I am here to remind you that whatever ugly and negative thing anyone ever chooses to say about you is always a reflection and revelation of themselves. »

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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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Results of the 2020 population and housing censuses must be used to inform development planning and decision-making

[UNFPA in WCA] Dakar, Senegal — 27 July 2018: The results of the 2020 round of population and housing censuses must be analyzed, available, widely disseminated and timely utilized to inform development planning and decision making at national and local levels, including investments in youth and women, to harness the …

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