Dakar, Senegal News

ARTICLE: Haitians to Africa? Senegal resettlement plans gain steam , By Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor ,February 2, 2010 Oddly enough, I read this piece while in Dakar, Senegal.

Teranga is a dream come true for owner Marie-Claude Mendy, who works for a French bank by day and oversees Teranga at night.

The African Renaissance Monument, a large bronze statue, is being made in the Senegalese capital of Dakar by a North Korean design company.

Former Chadian President Hissene Habre has been under house arrest in Senegal since 2000.

This is a visible image of the Cape Verde Islands on Dec. 12 at 14:45 UTC as seen by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite.

Satori World Medical CEO Steven Lash explains why medical tourism has become so attractive to Americans.

The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination.

Born and raised in Dakar, Senegal, Umbo studied music at Ecole des Artes. He has been drumming and dancing since he was ten years old.

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Conrad Black: "Today, Haiti needs Canadian soldiers, but going forward, Canadian tourists might be more helpful." Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas.

A one-time bodyguard of former first lady Marike de Klerk, and South Africa's highest-ranking female police officer in 1991, claims she has been left high and dry by her South African Police Service handler after being caught last year with 6kg of cocaine in Dakar, Senegal.

A muscled man emerges from a volcano. His right arm holds a baby aloft toward the West, his left arm pulls a scantily clad woman behind him.

A year after taking power in a bloodless coup, and a month after an assassination attempt on the coup leader by his own aide, Guinea's military appears ready to hand over power to civilians.

With the global economic downturn causing the 'disastrous combination' of high food prices and reduced buying power, leaving hundreds of millions more people unable to feed themselves or their families, the United Nations today reiterated its commitment to work with regional bodies to ensure food security.

A group of sex workers, some of whom are HIV-positive, share a meal in Dakar, Senegal.

DAKAR, Senegal -- A spokesman for Senegal's president says that the country is ready to offer land to Haitians who want to 'return to their origins.' Mamadou Bamba Ndiaye, spokesman for President Abdoulaye Wade, says that the president is willing to give a region of his country to citizens of Haiti who have suffered from a devastating earthquake.

A WHITE former opposition MP who has been named Zimbabwe's new ambassador to Senegal believes she and President Robert Mugabe will have to "let bygones be bygones". For years, Trudy Stevenson, 65, has been one of the most vocal critics of Mr Mugabe's regime.

Data from the 10 days after the Christmas terror attempt showed a significant increase in delays and cancellations.

's caretaker leader, Sekouba Konate, is in good health, an official of the ruling junta said yesterday, denying media reports he was being evacuated to Senegal for hospital treatment.

As Senegal's people struggle, a statue costing millions has upset Muslims and Christians alike.