Tag: Senegal

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Will Mimi Toure survive her Parliamentary coup?

A parliamentary committee in Senegal yesterday voted out Aminata Toure widely called Mimi Toure, causing her to lose her parliamentary seat. This decision came following her exit from the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition which voted her into the Parliament in September last year. Mimi Toure is organizing a press conference […]

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Journalist Pape Alé Niang granted bail

Senegal – Journalist Pape Alé Niang was released today, January 10, 2023, after a two-stage incarceration that began on November 6, 2022. He has thus been granted provisional liberty accompanied by judicial control granted by the Senegalese judicial authorities. The Coordination of Press Associations (CAP) salutes the work and professionalism […]

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Senegal: Tragic accident in Kaffrine leaves 54 dead

A tragic accident occurred in Sikilo along the Kaffrine highway in Senegal on Saturday night. The death toll from last night’s accident, which involved 125 people, including 38 lifeless bodies, 38 seriously injured and 49 slightly injured, according to a provisional report from a source close to the gendarmerie, has […]