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In Senegal, girls are breaking the rules to get in the game

AP10ThingsToSee - In this Oct. 10, 2013 photo, Aida Diallo, whose ten-year-old son Bamba was killed when a fire struck the Dakar shack where he was sleeping along with other Quranic students, sits in her one-room home in the village of Ndame, Senegal. Bamba's older brother Cheikhou, 13, managed to escape the fire which killed Bamba and three of their cousins. For now the surviving boys and their teacher are back in Ndame, but, says Diallo, when their teacher, her brother, returns to Dakar, Cheikhou will go too. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Cutting FGM from Senegalese practice

Stage by stage In Senegal, while programmes tackling infectious diseases have been effective, longer life expectancy and more western lifestyles are causing cancer rates to climb. Data show that more people are dying of cancer here than of malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS together. Almost 14 million people live in Senegal, but only a handful of doctors focus on cancer which stands out given the country’s high level of medical education and a health system said to be more than 100 years old. The lack of strong prevention, good screening and treatment programmes often leave outcomes grim. The west African country’s only radiotherapy machine has fallen into disuse and patients often have to travel to Morocco for treatment, say reports. Picture shows oncologist Dr. Abdoul Aziz Kasse at his Clinique des Mamelles, in Dakar, Senegal.

Senegal’s silent emergency

People stand before a collapsed wall at Demba Diop stadium on July 15, 2017 in Dakar after a football game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour turned into a duel killing eight people.

Eight killed, 50 hurt in Senegal soccer stampede

People look at the scene after a wall collapsed at Demba Diop stadium on Saturday in Dakar after a football game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour. Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league final in Dakar on Saturday in a stampede that broke out following clashes at the end of the match, the official APS news agency said. The wall collapse adding many more to be injured.

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Shreekumar Varma, the great grandson of the legendary 19th century painter Raja Ravi Varma, apparently was lured to Senegal to negotiate the sale of one of the canvases by the painter, which is part of the Travancore inheritance.

Writer Varma likely to return today from Senegal

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Shreekumar Varma, the great grandson of the legendary 19th century painter Raja Ravi Varma, apparently was lured to Senegal to negotiate the sale of one of the canvases by the painter, which is part of the Travancore inheritance.

Chennai-based writer Varma freed in police operation

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Shreekumar Varma, the great grandson of the legendary 19th century painter Raja Ravi Varma, apparently was lured to Senegal to negotiate the sale of one of the canvases by the painter, which is part of the Travancore inheritance.

Chennai-based writer abducted, freed in Senegal

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Senegal authorities arrest 7 for suspected extremism ties