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- Mauritania to let 20000 refugees return home from Mali and Senegal
- Multi-Functional Platform in Senegal
- Senegal to establish regional heart institute
- … and change: negotiating female genital cutting in the…
- Agence de Presse Africaine – Article

Mauritania to let 20000 refugees return home from Mali and Senegal
Reuters AlertNet – Jun 22, 2007
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Multi-Functional Platform in Senegal
Policy Innovations – Jun 22, 2007
Photo by Rachel Makabi. The machine would not work. Dionfolo ualy and her ten-year-old daughter Kamissa had no choice but to put aside their other tasks and thrash at the chunks of millet with large wooden sticks. It was nearing 4 p. on a Friday in the mid-sized village of Bantantinty Senegal—about 290 miles of potholed roads east of the capital Dakar—where a team of students had traveled to examine access to energy services in rural Africa as part of a joint Columbia University–United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) workshop.

Senegal to establish regional heart institute
People's Daily nline – Jun 22, 2007
Speaking Thursday during the opening session of the first congress of Senegalese cardiologists on the theme of “ischemic heart diseases” and “coronary heart disease and related complications” umar Faye director of health services reaffirmed the commitment of the government to establish a regional heart institute in Dakar capital of Senegal. This institute will be made up of two departments including medical cardiology and heart surgery as well as a unit for prevention and research. This will come as an addition to the largest cardiology institute in Africa which is also located in Dakar and where about 70 doctors drawn from 22 countries are currently pursuing their studies Faye said. For several years now Senegal has made the problem of chronicle diseases in general and the pathology of cardiovascular diseases in particular a priority in its public health system and has put in place a national program for the fight against these diseases.

… and change: negotiating female genital cutting in the…
Free with registration – Africa Today – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 22, 2007
Anthropologists have suggested that the FGC debate is a case in which Africans ought to be allowed to “argue this one out for themselves” (Gruenbaum 1996; Scheper-Hughes 1991). In many parts of Africa and its diasporas this is precisely what people are engaged in doing: in village meetings among small gatherings of friends on TV in newspapers at NG workshops and on the internet individuals and organizations are passionately discussing their positions on the practice of FGC and attempts at its elimination. ur data from the West African countries of The Gambia and Senegal point to something much more fluid than diametrically opposed camps of unequivocal “supporters” and “opponents. ” As anthropologist Caroline H. Bledsoe found in her research on Gambian women’s reproductive decisions reality is usually far more complex than the image of a large sea of “unpersuaded” traditionalists surrounding a tiny island of enlightened “acceptors” of the desired innovation or behavior change in the case of her study of Western contraception (Bledsoe 2002:94). Instead individuals reinterpret social norms about childbearing and attempt to manipulate events to meet their fertility goals (Bledsoe 2002; Bledsoe Banja and Hill 1998). Similarly in the case of FGC dichotomizing those who retain and those who reject the practice oversimplifies the complexity of contemplation and decisionmaking.

Agence de Presse Africaine – Article
Agence de Presse Africaine – Jun 22, 2007
In his book “Un destin pour l’Afrique (A Destiny for Africa)” President Wade notes that the continental government he is proposing to his peers could comprise a “limited number of ministries with restricted competencies led by a prime minister”. These ministries to be transversal due to their scope of activities will enjoy prerogatives that will not block those of the current African ministries as the selection covers clearly identified ministries. “It means giving ministers common tasks according to objectives shared by Africans which were not seriously followed-up” President Wade whose country has included a key article in his constitution whereby Dakar can renounce its sovereignty in favour of the African Union without holding a referendum to consult its people wrote in his book. These ministries are the Finance Economy Education Energy Communication Information Health Environment and Sports while suggesting that the prime minister be appointed by the heads of state summit for a four-year term.