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CLEAN : FILE: Dakar mayor in prison ahead of legislative elections
Dakar's popular mayor remains in prison preventing him from campaigning in upcoming legislative elections
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CLEAN : Senegal at the polls to choose its parliament
Senegal's voters are at the polls to choose a new parliament following campaigning wrought with tensions between the rival coalitions of President Macky Sall his predecessor and Dakar's detained mayor
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CLEAN : Dakar mayor's coalition denounces electoral hold up
Senegal's opposition coalition led by Khalifa Sall the mayor of Dakar currently in jail claims victory in the region of Dakar after tense legislative elections
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CLEAN : Polls open in Senegal for legislative elections
Senegal's voters are casting their ballots to elect a new parliament
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CLEAN : Senegal: Former president Abdoulaye Wade campaigns
At 91 former senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade is still on the campaign trail as he heads up an opposition list for Sunday's legislative election
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CLEAN : French navy trains African forces in Gulf of Guinea
The French Navy is training African forces in the Gulf of Guinea to combat piracy illegal fishing and to offer assistance to ship in distress
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CLEAN : Japan: Baryshnikov Youssou N'Dour awarded top art prize
The private Japan Art Association gives this year's Praemium Imperiale the lucrative annual awards to five prominent artists including the Russian ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Senegalese music star Youssou N'Dour
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CLEAN : New international airport near Dakar to open soon
Ten years after construction first began Blaise Diagne International Airport near Dakar is expected to be inaugurated beginning of December
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CLEAN : Casamance attack: local mayor visits injured at hospital
A day after a shooting in the Senegalese Southern province of Casamance that left 13 people dead the mayor of Ziguinchor the provincial capital visited some of the survivors at the hospital
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CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Downtown Ziguinchor and the surrounding area
Stockshots of Ziguinchor the capital of the Casamance province in Southern Senegal
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CLEAN : African leaders urge support for new security doctrine
African leaders are calling for extra support as the continent moves to assure its own security after years of Western interventions as they meet at a regional forum
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CLEAN : Casamance shooting : officials visit victims in hospital
In Senegal a day after a shooting in the Southern province of Casamance several official delegations came to visit some of the injured people at the hospital
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CLEAN : Sall's lawyers argue that Senegalese state cannot be plaintiff
Defence lawyers for Dakar's mayor Khalifa Sall are challenging the state's position as plaintiff in his trial for alleged embezzlement of public funds
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CLEAN : Dakar mayor challenges state's presence as civil party at trial
The defense for Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall on trial for embezzlement of public funds challenges the presence of the state as a civil party to his trial before the court in the Senegalese capital
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CLEAN : Families of Senegal massacre victims mourn their dead
Senegal is mourning the death of 13 people killed by unknown armed men in a forest while fetching wood in the Southern region of Casamance
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CLEAN : Trial of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall postponed again
The trial of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall charged with embezzlement of public funds has been postponed again following a request from the defence team
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CLEAN : Emmanuel Macron meets with Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Dakar where he is greeted by his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall
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CLEAN : France and Senegal sign agreements on education plane purchase
Senegalese President Macky Sall welcomes his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to the presidential palace in Dakar where the two sign agreements on the sale of two Airbus planes for $214 million (171 million euros) and the creation of a...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that his government was having difficulty finding a workable solution to the issue of migrants in Calais as most didn't want to remain in France but enter the UK.
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CLEAN : France will help Senegal fight terrorism in the Sahel: Macron
Speaking in Dakar French president Macron promised Friday night that France would ensure the country's safety and that the fight against terrorism especially in the Sahel will continue for several more years
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CLEAN : France and Senegal in tune on migration issues
At the end of the golbal conference for the financing of education French president Emmanuel Macron and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall committed to reinforcing their cooperation in terms of education and stressed their similar...
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CLEAN : Brigitte Macron in Senegal visits the Island of Goree
Brigitte Macron visits the Island of Goree during a trip to Senegal with her husband French President Emmanuel Macron for a conference aimed at pressuring donors to finance the education of a quarter of a billion children worldwide who...