Former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade has offered to host Guinea’s deposed leader Alpha Conde in his villa in Senegal’s seaside capital Dakar. Conde, 83, was ousted in a military coup on September 5 after he cracked down on protests and won a controversial third presidential term last year. Guinea’s ruling[Read More…]
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Senegal’s Old Capital On The Frontline Against Rising Sea
In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay. When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometres along the coastline of the West African country’s former[Read More…]
Senegal’s Gendarmes Receive Border Security Training
The border patrol units of the national gendarmerie have completed, last Friday, a five-month training provided by the United States. A total of 99 Senegalese gendarmes from the Surveillance and Intervention Squadrons (ESI) were trained at the Regional Tactical Training Centre at Camp Mbaye Diagne as part of the US[Read More…]
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