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By Kari Barber Dakar 30 December 2006 Senegal is preparing to observe the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha (the feast of the sacrifice) starting Sunday. The holiday, known as Tabaski in parts of West Africa, requires Muslims to sacrifice a sheep for the n
By Jordan Davis Dakar 30 September 2006 Alioune Kamara the head of Senegal's office of veterans and war victims, stand in front of his office building at Dakar, Senegal, Sept. 26, 2006 Tens of thousands of veterans of France's colonial army will soo
By Phuong Tran Fatick, Senegal 18 December 2006 Anta Mbow, left, and Gueye Ndao Seck make couscous by hand, in Thiaroye, Senegal, 17 Sept 2006 Young rural women in Africa face harsh circumstances, as they prepare for adulthood. In this first part of
By Phuong Tran Dakar 02 January 2007 Some Muslims without enough money to make the once-in-a-lifetime Passengers pack belongings for trip home pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, travel to their home villages to celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adh
By Kari Barber Dakar 02 December 2006 This year marks 40 years since the sport of surfing was introduced in Senegal. The country first gained the attention of the surf world with the 1966 surfing documentary The Endless Summer. In the following deca
By Naomi Schwarz Casamance, Senegal 05 September 2006 Women in West Africa have implemented many types of informal banking as a result of not having access to regular credit. Some of these innovations are used to start or expand local businesses whi
By Phuong Tran Dakar 21 December 2006 In cities, they turn heads with their tight jeans, sparkly makeup and fashionable jewelry. But, the cosmopolitan beauty of young African women can actually hide urban woes. In this fourth part of a series on cha
By Jordan Davis Dakar 21 December 2006 Senegalese army officials say two soldiers were shot to death in an ambush in the southern Casamance region. For more than two decades, the area has seen sporadic violence involving separatist rebels and the na
By Jordan Davis Dakar 26 December 2006 Senegalese fishermen say their catches are smaller because of fishing by foreign commercial vessels, 26 Dec. 2006 This year as many as 30,000 illegal migrants left West African shores for Spain's Canary Islands
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 06 December 2006 Ndiaye Diop lifts her daughter over trash in Pikine, 17 Oct 2006 In the developing world's fast-growing cities, formal systems for managing garbage are sometimes insufficient. In Senegal's capital, Dakar, tras
By Nico Colombant Dakar 10 February 2007 Senegal's campaign for a presidential election later this month has been mostly peaceful, but candidates have started trading nasty accusations. By far, the candidate facing the harshest criticism is the incu
By Kari Barber Thiaroye, Senegal 23 January 2007 watch Senegalese Immigration Tens of thousands of Senegalese and other West Africans left their homes and set out for the Canary Islands during the past year, hoping to find economic opportunity. The
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 23 January 2007 Journalists, politicians and observers in Senegal are expressing surprise at the announcement that popular opposition figure, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, is rejoining the camp of President Abdoulaye Wad
By Phuong Tran Katote, Senegal 13 March 2007 In parts of rural Africa, some parents force their daughters to marry as young as eight-years-old. This is so there is no chance the girls can get pregnant before marriage, and ruin the families' honor. O
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have said this more than once this week. After James Comey's firing, there are still more questions than there are answers. Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska is still asking, why now. Our co-host, Steve Inskeep, sat dow
By Phuong Tran Dakar 05 April 2007 Watch Corner Kitchen report According to most poverty indicators, almost half the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is living on less than one dollar a day. One Senegalese food stand owner shows how far a dollar goe
By Kari Barber Dakar 14 April 2007 Hundreds of demonstrators in the restive Casamance region of southern Senegal filled the streets Saturday protesting what they are calling police brutality. Angry mobs in Kolda burned tires and razed houses to the g
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 11 June 2007 Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene is being buried in Dakar as praise is being showered from across the world on his career. Selah Hennessy reports from Dakar his death at the age of 84 also leaves a void, revea
By Phuong Tran Dakar 12 February 2007 Africa's porous borders and location have made it an attractive destination for drug traffickers. Health and government officials worry how this trend affects the growing rate of HIV infection on the continent.
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 05 February 2007 On the second day of campaigning for presidential elections in Senegal, incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade took his campaign to the southern Casamance region, the site of a long-running separatist movement. Ot