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Four months after the opening of a Liberian embassy in Dakar, Senegal, the new ambassador has pledged to further the relationship between the two West African countries.

Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say.

The Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars would now face Senegal in the second rounds of the Africa home base championship, CHAN. (AllAfrica)

Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say. (AllAfrica)

Moving day. Mariyata Seck looks out at the lake that was once her neighborhood in Guediwaye.

Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar. (AllAfrica)

DUNCAN Mugabe will once again play Italian seed three Claudio Grassi in the second round of the Senegal F2 Futures tennis tournament in Dakar today, after overcoming American Janicije Karic in straight sets (6-2 6-0) in the first round on Monday. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. (irinnews.org)

ZIGUINCHOR Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal’s Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region’s fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. (irinnews.org)

MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs. (irinnews.org)

BAMAKO Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (IRIN) - When a storm hits in Togo, disaster relief items must be flown in from Brindisi, Italy, but that is just too far, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is formalizing the region’s first government-operated humanitarian stockpile in Mali’s capital Bamako. (irinnews.org)

New varieties of groundnuts that are suited to the local soil and climate are part of arresting falling production.

Eliminated in the second round of the singles round of the International Tennis Federation( ITF) Futures Circuit in Senegal midweek, Uganda's lone ranger Duncan Mugabe kept the national flag flying high by reaching the doubles final. (AllAfrica)

French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye on Monday won France's top literary prize for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa.

AFRICAN music fit for emperors and kings will fill Pilton Hall in November. Kora player and singer Jali Fily, who hails from South Senegal is a Griot - a professional hereditary musician whose ancestors once advised and entertained the emperors and Kings Of Mali.

DAKAR Friday, September 11, 2009 (IRIN) - Relentless rain in parts of West Africa has worsened flooding, leading governments and aid agencies to step up emergency response efforts. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, September 11, 2009 (IRIN) - The 2009 rainy season in West Africa, with several weeks to go, has caused extensive flooding, affecting hundreds of thousands of people and killing 160, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Here is a synopsis of flood impact and responses in several West African countries. (irinnews.org)

KAGUIT Friday, September 11, 2009 (IRIN) - Three women walk through lush forest with bowls of rice plants on their heads. It is a spectacular scene in the verdant Casamance region of southern Senegal, but the beauty is marred by red and white-striped warning tape demarcating areas where a team is scanning the land for deadly mines. (irinnews.org)

KAGUIT Friday, September 11, 2009 (IRIN) - Elisabeth Sambou works with a team that sets out out every weekday at dawn in Senegal’s Casamance region to scour the lush land for mines. The demining team members put on vinyl-kneed trousers, a 4-kilogram protective vest and a helmet with a face shield. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, September 10, 2009 (IRIN) - Having a condom split during sex is not much fun, but the idea that millions of condoms may be faulty before they are opened is the stuff nightmares are made of. (irinnews.org)

Fifteen maritime professionals from Ghana concluded three weeks of at-sea training with a graduation ceremony held on the flight deck of the Dutch Africa Partnership Station platform HNLMS Johan de Witt Oct.

Information reaching Foroyaa, recently, has disclosed that clashes have taken place between the Senegalese Army and unidentified armed groups in the southern region of the country (Casamance). Residents in the area believe that the two factions are fighting in the region, causing many people to flee their homes. (AllAfrica)

Uganda's top tennis player Duncan Mugabe will face the toughest duel of his budding career when he takes on seed two Claudio Grassi of Italy in the second round of the Senegal F1 Futures Tennis Circuit today. (AllAfrica)

It is disheartening to learn that peace is still absent in Senegalese southern region of Cassamance. The parties to the conflict should resort to adressing matters by peaceful means. (AllAfrica)

Senegal's president said Tuesday that his top aide gave nearly $200,000 "in error" to an International Monetary Fund representative as a parting gift.