Stability draws African migrants to Senegal
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Like many poor Africans, Muhammed Serif Diallo left his family and village behind him and set off without a visa in search of a better life in a richer country.
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BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their lost homeland in war-scattered southern Sudan and chanting praise for the peace they had found as refugees.
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Senegal's presidential poll was free and fair, say regional observers, as counting continues.
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Issa Cisse thought of himself as French when he left Senegal to help free his colonial masters from the grip of the Germans at the end of World War II.
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President Jacques Chirac visits Senegal on Wednesday for the first time in a decade, hoping to boost ties with a former West African colony at a time when the United States is raising its military profile in the region.
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At least 56 African migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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LISBON, Jun 18 (IPS) - The small West African island nation of Cape Verde,  which was uninhabited when Portuguese navigators discovered it in  1460, now has more citizens living abroad than at home. And  growing numbers of women are joining the diaspora.
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Military chiefs from the United States and nine African countries have met in Senegal to seek ways to strengthen the battle against terrorism.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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For both the desperate and the more affluent, the thought of a better future in Europe has permeated Senegalese society.
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&quot;It took me four months to get here,&quot; said Abbaker Mussa who fled the war-torn region of Darfur, still plagued by violence despite a May peace deal that ended three years of conflict.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Residents burned tires and  children took to the streets with sticks in Senegal's capital  on Wednesday to fight an invasion of locusts, as 12 West  African nations agreed on a battle plan.
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A boatload of migrants arrives almost daily. A decade ago, most were from Eastern Europe. Increasingly, they are from Africa and Asia.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Mangoes stand piled high in red,   orange and green stacks, a traditional sight on the roadsides   of Senegal during the harvest season.
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DUBAI (Reuters Life!) - Senegalese artist Amadou Kan-Si's paintings might not be in the typically distinctive geometric and calligraphic style of most Islamic art but they are meant to capture moments of spirituality in Muslim prayer.
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The experience of Ibrahim Mohamed Doud and his two wives, one African and one Arab, illustrates the tangled ethnicity of Darfur, the scene of the violent displacement of 1.5 million people.