Six months’ jail for female circumcisers in Senegal
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- Six months’ jail for female circumcisers in Senegal
- Mauritanian politicians in Dakar for dialogue pending election
- Madagascar interim leader meets Senegal’s Wade
- Skin lightening creams a problem in Senegal
- Local African Fruits Valuable During Food Shortages
- Senegal: Athletics – Country Dethrone Nigeria
- Brazil in Still Another Trade Mission to Africa
Six months’ jail for female circumcisers in Senegal
AFP
The court in Matam 680 kilometres (425 miles) north of Dakar handed down the sentences to a traditional female circumciser and the 16-month-old girl’s grandmother while her parents were given six-month suspended sentences Raddho’s local representative said. The grandmother got a harsher sentence than the parents as she was the one who took the girl to be circumcised he added. The practice has been forbidden in Senegal since 1999 when Senegal adopted a law to ban female circumcision also known as female genital mutilation (FGM). Since then many villages have signed pledges to ban female circumcision but the Matam case stirred controversy with local Muslim religious leaders defending female circumcision as part of their tradition. n Thursday morning clashes broke out between religious protesters and local police according to the RFM radio station. The demonstrators threw rocks at the police who used teargas to break up the protest the station added. The circumcision of the girl from the village of urossogui close to Matam was reported to the police by a Raddho representative.
Mauritanian politicians in Dakar for dialogue pending election
Xinhua
” Wade 70 is known for good offices in conflicts ranging from tensions between Chad and Sudan to the standoff between Guinea’s military junta and the international community. Last year he also offered to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the radical Palestinian movement Hamas in the capacity of the sitting chairman of the rganization of the Islamic Conference. Senegal has a swing too by hosting thousands of Mauritanian refugees. Instability in Mauritania between the late 1980s and the early 1990s forced 24 000 people to flee into Senegal and 6000 exiled in Mali. With the help of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Mauritanians sheltered in Senegal began to return home in 2008. n Monday some of the Mauritanian opponents of the upcoming election staged a march to Dakar in their latest attempt to seek a solution in the southern neighbor. The Dakar meeting of Mauritanian politicians followed the setback of efforts by Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio who went to the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott in mid-May to mediate but failed to bring about a deal before the polls.
Madagascar interim leader meets Senegal’s Wade
AFP
“I leave here with a feeling of relief. the situation (in Madagascar) has been made clear” Rajoelina was quoted as telling reporters by the Senegalese APS press agency.
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Skin lightening creams a problem in Senegal
AFP
Without her it would have been difficult” she said. “My friend showed me magazines with pictures of women who were suffering from the effects of the creams I saw the pictures and told myself I really have to stop. “The creams are notably popular in Senegal’s bustling capital of Dakar. At the Sandaga open air market in the city’s center vendors say they daily sell entire cartons of potions with names like X-White and Clear and White. Mounass 21 dressed in a hot-pink T-shirt and tight pants browsed the stands to pick up a new supply. She slathers herself in lightening cream twice a day and each month spends some 40000 CFA francs more than the Senegalese minimum wage on the products “because men prefer women with fairer skin”.
Local African Fruits Valuable During Food Shortages
Voice of America
He says lost fruits as well as Africa?s other lost crops provide excellent nutrition and their use should be expanded. “It?s incredible to think that Africa is considered the continent of malnutrition and yet there are all these fruits around between South Africa and Senegal and they literally don?t get any attention from the scientists. They don?t get attention from the foreign scientists because we don?t know them we?re not aware of their potential and we tend to try to introduce our kind of fruits? he says. He also says even local scientists may not be familiar with the fruits because they use textbooks and research papers written in the West. Vietmeyer is enthusiastic about the tamarind. It?s often associated with India but not often used in Africa.
Senegal: Athletics – Country Dethrone Nigeria
AllAfrica.com
The Senegalese garnered 10 gold six silver and seven bronze medals against Nigeria’s nine gold 10 silver and four bronze medals. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Nigeria’s greatest undoing was her inability to assert authority on her perceived strong areas-the sprints. In fact Nigeria won only one only one out of the six gold medals on offer in both the short and the long (quartermile) sprints. In the men’s 100m nyeabor Nwaogu emerged the fastest man of the championships when he raced to a 10.
Brazil in Still Another Trade Mission to Africa
Brazzil Magazine
The production of 25 Brazilian companies will be showcased to importers from the 16 countries in West Africa. Among the participating nations are Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde the Ivory Coast Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone and Togo. There will be Brazilian exhibitors in the sectors of agricultural machinery and equipment biofuels and industrialized foods which were pointed out by the Apex as having the most promising markets in the region. Importers from Mauritania which is an Arab country were and are being invited according to information supplied by the Apex press office.
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