By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – updated at 13:14 EAT Saturday 02 February 2025 Global content creator champions children’s rights following four-day visit to see UNICEF’s work in Senegal. DAKAR|HICGI – Global content creator Khaby Lame has been named UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The announcement was made at an event in Senegal, Lame’s birth country, following…
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AU Kampala Summit To Adopt 10-Year CAADP Strategy For Agricultural Transformation And Food Systems In Africa.
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi, Ernest Benjamin Kivumbi and AU Press Unit. EAT 22:15. Thursday, January 09, 2025. MUNYONYO, UGANDA-Ministers of Agriculture from the African Union’s (AU) 55 member states have convened in Kampala, Uganda, for a three-day Extraordinary Summit aimed at advancing agricultural transformation and strengthening food systems across the continent. The summit, taking place…
Climate Activits in Senegal optimistic about COP 30 in Brazil.
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN Climate Activists from Senegal have shared their passion to save the planet from Climatic catastrophe during an interview with Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin in Baku Azerbaijan. They have shared their positive out comes from COP 29 and they look forward to participating in COP 30 next year in Brazil. Click to watch and subscribe
Bassirou Diomaye Faye sworn in as Senegal’s new president.
Senegal inaugurated Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president on Tuesday, completing the previously little-known opposition figure’s dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks. Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March 24 election, along with popular opposition figure and mentor Ousmane Sonko, following a political amnesty announced by outgoing President Macky Sall….
Diomaye Faye’s large win in Senegal presidential elections.
Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results have shown. Faye placed well ahead of the governing coalition’s candidate, former prime minister Amadou Ba, who garnered 35.79 percent. Aliou Mamadou Dia, who came third out of 19 candidates, won…
Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye takes early lead in presidential election.
Supporters of Senegal’s presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye have taken to the streets of the capital, Dakar, in celebration as early results from Sunday’s vote showed the opposition contender in the lead. The celebrations came as at least five of the 17 candidates in the race issued statements congratulating Faye on what they called his…
“Am not responsible for Choas ln Senegal ” President Macky Sall .
Senegal’s president has told the BBC he does not regret delaying this year’s elections, a move that sparked deadly protests. Macky Sall said he did not make the decision alone – he was responding to concerns raised by parliamentarians. After a violent backlash, many feared the relatively stable nation was slipping into political crisis. But…
Macky Sall and preferred successor behind the election crisis in Senegal
The botched attempt by Senegalese president Mackay Sall to postpone  the presidential election has stirred unnecessary tension in an already strained electoral process. The move reflected deeper governance problems in the country. Sales decree, subsequently annulled by the Constitutional council, was the latest in a range of government interventions that exceeded the scope of the executive authority. These have…
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