News from Senegal
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March 25, 2013: Senegal’s Election Situation Room Documentary Showcases Innovative Election Monitoring Tool
Dakar, Senegal - PRESS RELEASE: TELEVISED FILM EVENT Senegal’s Election Situation Room Documentary Showcases Innovative Election Monitoring Tool Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) premieres film on how Senegal’s civil society helped ensure free, fair and credible results during the 2012 Presidential elections To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Senegal’s 2012 Presidential elections, a...
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September 10, 2012: PRESS RELEASE: OSIWA and UN African IDEP Train Parliamentarians and Civil Society in Mineral Policy
Dakar, Senegal - The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and The UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) recently concluded a two-week intensive training course in Dakar, Senegal for Parliamentarians and Leaders of Civil Society across Africa. The program, entitled “Mineral Policy Course for Parliamentarians and Civil Society Members’, was aimed at strengthening...
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July 23, 2012: How Senegal’s Youth Took a Stand in the 2012 Presidential Elections
Dakar, Senegal - Senegal has just completed an electoral process having held presidential and legislative elections respectively in February/March and July 2012. This article is a post election reading of the process that looks at youth’s contribution. On 25 March 2012, the Senegalese people elected a new president in a highly charged second round election marred by violence. It was not the first time...
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July 2, 2012: Media Training Workshop for Open Society Foundations’ African Youth with Disabilities Network Kicks off in Dakar
Dakar, Senegal - A five-day conference in Dakar, Senegal gathers 22 young Africans with disabilities from 11 different countries. A billion disabled people live on the planet, 80% of them living in developing countries. Around the world this group is being marginalized in almost every aspect of life, from within their very own communities, in areas of education and employment, extending out into the...
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June 25, 2012: Launch of Report: "Senegal: An 'old' democracy in urgent need of reform"
Dakar, Senegal - Launch of report - “Senegal: An ‘old’ democracy in urgent need of reform” Senegal’s democratic system needs a serious overhaul, according to a recently released study on the country’s state of democratic and political participation. Among the list of suggested reforms is the modernization of the electoral process, the need to rationalize the presidential institution and the necessity of...