Senegal| Last Updated 20/11/2009 19:48:00
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 | MFWA calls for legal action against Ghana Police | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West
Africa (MFWA), has called on Ghana's Interior Ministry to do more towards ending
attacks against media workers by security men while calling for a suit against t
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e policeman who allegedly assaulted
Journalist Sammy Darko, MFWA said in a statement sent to PANA Friday.
20/11/2009 full text... |
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| MFWA says Guineans live in permanent fear | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundati
on for West Africa (MFWA), Thursday decried the high level of impunity presided
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ver by Guinea's military junta, saying â?Guineans live in permanent fear,â? the
body said in a statement received by PANA.
19/11/2009 full text... |
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| US Senate expresses concern over â~missingâ? Gambian journalist | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The American Senate on Wednesday expressed concern over
the fate of â~missingâ? Gambian reporter, Chief Ebrima Manneh, saying the treat
ment of the journalist by Gambian authorities, â?will be considered in assessing
continued United States assistance for The Gambia,â? PANA reported.
19/11/2009 full text... |
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| UN calls for release of "missing" Gambian journalist | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations 'Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
' on Wednesday slammed the Gambian government, saying the continued detention of
Gambian journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh, was "a Violation of International Law"
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hile calling for his "immediate release".
19/11/2009 full text... |
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| Gender activists want female candidate for AU Commission | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gender activists meeting in Banjul, the Gambia, have c
alled for â?deliberate effortsâ? towards the nomination of female candidates fo
r African Union Commission chair â?as a sign of equal sharing of leadership and
responsibilities for delivering on the development agendaâ? on the continent, ac
cording to a statement received here by PANA Wednesday.
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| Senegal records decline in Malaria morbidity rate | | Kaolack, Senegal (PANA) - The morbidity rate from malaria in Senegal has gone do
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from 22.25% in 2007 to 5.62% in 2008, according to the supervisor of the Nationa
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Programme for the Fight against Malaria (PNLP), Mr. Moussa Ndour.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| Police manhandle, arrest journalist in Ghana | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Police officers in â?Waâ?, the capital of Upper West r
egion of Ghana, allegedly manhandled and detained James Donkor, a journalist wit
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â?Radio Progressâ?, a community radio, for taking a photograph of a man the po
licemen had allegedly tied to an electric pole, the sub-regional rights body, Me
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ia Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said Friday.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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| Gambia hosts African Regional Conference on Women | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambia will host the â?African Regional Conference
on Womenâ?, dubbed (Beijing+15), with over 28 African ministers in charge of ge
nder affairs and high level participants from some 43 countries expected to atte
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d, the Addis Ababa-based Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the main organise
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, said in a communiqueâ? received here by PANA Friday.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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