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Senegal has entered a new era of mass transport after Monday’s launch by President Macky Sall of an express train with a 115,000-passenger capacity per day that will ease the country’s transportation conundrums.
Coach Aliou Cisse of the Senegalese national football team said his charges will not be fazed by being one of the pre-tournament favourites when the Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Cameroon next month.
Eleven lawmakers have tabled a bill in the Senegalese parliament to amend paragraph 3 of Article 319 of the amended Penal Code which would guarantee stiffer penalties for homosexual offenders.
The Bolloré Group has announced receiving an offer from the MSC Group, a major player in container transport and logistics, to acquire 100 percent of Bolloré Africa Logistics on the basis of an enterprise value net of minority interests, of €5.7 billion.
Gilles Yabi is a political analyst and has a PhD in economics. He is the founder and president of WATHI, a West African citizen think tank (www.wathi.org). As a regular participant in the Dakar International Forum for Peace and Security, he reviews the latest edition of this event, which took place recently in the Senegalese capital.
The third summit between Turkey and Africa which opened in Ankara on Friday provides an opportunity for host president Recep Erdogan to affirm his country’s clean breakthrough on the African continent.
The various stakeholders of the African Cup of nation (AfCON), in a joint statement, assured that everything is being done for the proper conduct of the competition.
The visit of the Tunisian businessmen is part of the Senegal-Tunisia Economic Forum which ends on Friday.
In a media appearance on Radio France Internationale (Rfi) and France 24 Channel, President Macky Sall of Senegal said he was “favorable” to a “rehabilitation” of Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall.
On the black continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) maintains, HIV is still expected to be a “threat to public health” by 2030.