In a small restaurant in Senegal’s seaside capital Dakar, Thiane Ngom has risen early to cook up a batch of thiebou dieune, the country’s most popular dish, before the lunch rush. Meaning “rice with fish” in Senegal’s dominant language Wolof, thiebou dieune takes about three hours to prepare, and is[Read More…]
Year: 2021
Another Deyda Hydara Anniversary – Still Waiting For Justice
It is yet another anniversary of the assassination of Deyda Hydara, Managing Editor and co-founder of The Point newspaper, and his family, colleagues and friends are still waiting for justice. It was 17 years ago, on 16 December 2004, when a group of ‘Junglers’ apparently on the orders of former[Read More…]
Senegal Expects 400,000 COVID-19 Vaccines To Expire By Year-End
At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months and another 200,000 are set to expire at the end of December because demand is too slow, the head of its immunisation programme said on Monday. African governments have been calling for more[Read More…]
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