Living ‘like fish’ in Senegal’s flooded capital
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- Living ‘like fish’ in Senegal’s flooded capital
- Ghana Senegal and Mali embark on Agric Productivity
- Doc tracks 3 years displaying courage of musical convictions
Living ‘like fish’ in Senegal’s flooded capital
AFP
“We are like fish” he says. The flooding which on Thursday led the government to enact an emergency plan forces this 17-year-old tailor’s assistant and thousands like him to “eat pray and do everything in the water. “Sandbags mark out the pathways through Djeddah-Thiaroye Kaw a teeming suburb which has turned into a marshland whose inhabitants roll up their trousers and robes to get around. The flooding is so frequent that fresh-water plants and green algae soon put in their annual appearance but the extent of the damage this year is such that the Dakar suburbs have made front-page news in the local papers.
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Ghana Senegal and Mali embark on Agric Productivity
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Theinitiativewhichisknownas’TheWestAfricaAgriculturalProductivityProgramme’willmakeGhanaproducerootsandtubersusingimprovedtechnologybecauseithascomparativeadvantagewhileMaliwillstepupriceproduction. Senegalwillalsoproducedroughttolerantcereals. TheNationalProjectCoordinatorwhodisclosedthistoRadioGhanasaidtheexercisewillenhanceregionalcooperationinTechnologytransferandresearchwork.
Doc tracks 3 years displaying courage of musical convictions
Chicago Tribune
Around the world his odes to progressive Islam and his native country’s Muslim political heroes were greeted warmly. In Senegal charges of blasphemy filled the air and N’dour’s album was in effect banned — the result of a wide and effective blacklist.
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