Local woman leaves comforts of US to serve Peace Corps in Senegal
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- Local woman leaves comforts of US to serve Peace Corps in Senegal
- Unconventional Hospital in Senegal Gives Traditional Medicine Top …
- Nigeria-WAFU-Championships Senegal boots out Nigeria out of WAFU …
- Guinea-Bissau bans demos after presidential attack
- Sharks look towards Senegal for title
- Senegal: Troubles in schools
Local woman leaves comforts of US to serve Peace Corps in Senegal
Cookeville Herald Citizen TN
to serve Peace Corps in Senegal. ayres@herald-citizen. TAMBACOUNDA REGION Senegal — Rebecca Semmes is a 26-year-old woman who like many others her age got restless when she neared her college graduation. She even prolonged her college experience with a master’s degree but when it was time to go out into the “real world” and get a real job she still had an itch to do something different. That’s when the Peace Corps officially entered her world and the organization has her halfway across the globe in the Senegal. “I’ve always liked to travel and experience other cultures so I’ve wanted to join Peace Corps ever since I first heard about it when I was a freshman in college” Semmes said.
Unconventional Hospital in Senegal Gives Traditional Medicine Top …
Voice of America
Erick GbodossouGynecologist Erick Gbodossou says traditional medicine has a lot to offer modern healing techniques so he built a hospital in Fatick Senegal to use the scientific method to prove it. At the center microscope-wielding lab techs work alongside African seers reading fortunes in the sand. A Senegalese woman who asked to identified only as Mariam is having her fortune read. The fortune teller Bougar Diop talks to her about an expected grandchild and reminds her to be more proactive in her life. To see these details Diop has completed a complicated ritual on a bed of sand in front of him.
Nigeria-WAFU-Championships Senegal boots out Nigeria out of WAFU …
African Press Agency Senegal
In the first half of the match a Senegalese defender headed the ball into his own net to give the Nigerian side the 1-0 lead at the end of the first half of the match. In the second half of the match a Nigerian defender Joshua Daniel scored against his team when he deflected the ball that hit the crossbar into his own net to bring scores at regulation time to 1-1. The final score was 5-4 in favour of Senegal which moves to the semi-final stage of the competition. In the quarter final matches played on Saturday at the other centres Ghana defeated hard fighting Benin 1-0 Burkina Faso beat Liberia 4-0 while Cote d’Ivoire defeated Mali 2-1 to qualify for the semi final of the competition. According to the fixtures for the semi final matches on Monday in Ogharra venue of the championship Senegal will face Cote d’Ivoire while Ghana will play Burkina Faso. The final of the championship holds on Wednesday in Ogharra.
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Guinea-Bissau bans demos after presidential attack
AFP
Two presidential guards died in the attack and several others were wounded. Nhaga said Saturday that the suspected ringleader had been arrested in Gambia and authorities were seeking to extradite him — apparently contradicting information that emerged from Senegal earlier in the week. Senegal said Wednesday that the suspected leader Alexandre Tchama Yala had been arrested in Dakar on Monday. Nhaga added that the country’s former deputy director for intelligence Alfredo Malu had also been arrested over the attack. Malu is believed to be close to former Guinea-Bissau president Kumba Yala who was overthrown by the army in 2003 and supervises his personal security. A total of eight people have been arrested including seven soldiers since the attack. In the last decade Guinea-Bissau one of the smallest and poorest countries in Africa has been plagued by a series of coups and attempted coups.
Sharks look towards Senegal for title
The Punch Nigeria
Sharks are currently occupying the fourth position in the table but Ikhana is not satisfied. He used the first transfer window of the season that closed on November 21 to fortify his team for the ultimate ambition of lifting the Globacom trophy. Ikhana went to Senegal from where he signed on two players from the Casa Sport FC Maguette Papa Guingue and Sane Pape Ousmane. Former captain of Sharks Victor Ezeji who had a stint with Club Africain of Tunisia and Alex Agbo who played at Plus FC in Malaysia were lured back to the Garden City. In all Ikhana got 10 new players making Sharks the club that bought the highest number of players during the period the others being Gombe United and Wikki Tourists also with 10 new players each. The Nigeria Football Federation said that 107 players were registered by 18 clubs during the transfer window. With nine new players Lobi Stars follow behind Sharks Gombe and Wikki that signed 10 players each.
Senegal: Troubles in schools
Global Voices Online MA
Recently several Senegalese bloggers and journalists have turned their attentions to the challenges of educating children in Senegal. In an article on the news website .
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