Senegal’s Fashion Victims
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- Senegal’s Fashion Victims
- Senegal’s sacked former PM ends feud with Wade
- Freedom House Says Global Freedoms Declined for 3rd Year
Senegal’s Fashion Victims
ABC News
In richer countries people are increasingly comfortable and successful regardless of their natural skin color but in many African countries like Senegal trying to change one’s skin color is still seen as a way to get ahead. “Some Senegalese women” Emilie a student at Dakar University told ABC News “are trying to look like the white girls they see on television. From ads on highway billboards to little stands in marketplaces skin bleaching products are almost everywhere. They sell well despite what public health officials say are grave risks of using them including cancer.
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Senegal’s sacked former PM ends feud with Wade
AFP
“There has been a reconciliation” he said adding that details of his return to the “liberal family” would be worked out with officials of the PDS and his Rewmi party. Seck who challenged Wade in 2007 presidential elections did not explicitly say he would return to the PDS but numerous commentators have said the move is imminent. Senegal is scheduled to hold local and regional elections on March 22. Appointed prime minister in 2002 Seck was sacked in April 2004 and then kicked out of the PDS in August 2005 over alleged corruption in a road project in his native city of Thies of which he was mayor. Seck was placed in preventive custody for seven months before being freed in February 2006 after the charges were partially dropped.
Freedom House Says Global Freedoms Declined for 3rd Year
Voice of America
The report says freedoms declined in 12 sub-Saharan African countries and one territory after several years of modest improvement. The most notable declines were in Mauritania and Senegal. Freedom House also says non-Baltic former Soviet states continued a decade-long decline in freedoms which left them ranked below sub-Saharan Africa in some areas. It says Russia and Georgia suffered the biggest setbacks in part due to their war over the Georgian breakaway region of South ssetia. The survey finds significant improvements to freedoms in South Asian countries that held elections last year including Pakistan the Maldives and Bhutan. Freedom House research director Arch Puddington says the advance of freedom in South Asia was a rare bright spot in a year otherwise marked by setbacks and stagnation.
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