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In Senegal, the world’s most expensive sheep face off in a beauty contest
The Globe and Mail
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June 30, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:The Ladoum beauty pageant in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday, features more than a dozen Ladoum sheep competing in three different categories. Prive, on the right, was the winner of this year's Best Male Adult...
In Senegal, luxury sheep shine at a beauty contest and fetch a high price
Newsday - New York
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DAKAR, Senegal — The regal creatures are led into the open arena, stamping their groomed hooves as if to acknowledge the cheers, music and fireworks from the crowd of spectators. Their majestic figures embody pride and status, their towering size,...
Illegal fishing and its consequences: the human toll of migration in Senegal
Mongabay
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June 30, 2025
In 2024, more than 2,000 people are believed to have died at sea while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from Senegal and the Gambia. According to the NGO Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), people from Senegalese fishing communities...
Gender gaps in crucial sectors are narrowing in more African countries — report
Independent (Uganda)
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June 29, 2025
More African countries are making progress on gender equality. From Benin to Botswana, new data shows gains in political inclusion, economic participation, and leadership. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | A new report shows many African countries...
Beyond the farmer’s wife: unpacking gendered spaces
Geographical
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June 29, 2025
Image: Shutterstock Recently, the National Farmers Union of Scotland (NFUS) urged its members to stop using phrases such as ‘farmer’s wife’ to address women in agriculture. Such gendered language reinforces stereotypes, but for today’s NFUS, a...
China-Senegal relations enter new phase with renewed political, economic cooperation
Business Insider Africa
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June 28, 2025
During a high-level meeting in Beijing on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, and commended the significant progress achieved by both nations since the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. "China...
President Xi Jinping says China, Senegal inject fresh impetus into Global South cooperation
IOL
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China is willing to work with Senegal to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, deepen their comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, bring more benefits to the two peoples, and inject fresh impetus into China-Africa friendship and Global...
Morabeza documented the culture of Cape Verde before independence
Portugal Pulse
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June 28, 2025
The Cape Verdean music embodies a poignant sentiment, channeling unspoken emotions, unexpressed faiths, and confessions held back, as described by Djunga di Biluca, founder of Morabeza Records, who passed away in 2023. These words appeared on the...
Senegalese Women’s Basketball Team Visas Rejected As U.S. Escalates Immigration Restrictions
Black Enterprise
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June 23, 2025
The visa rejections come amid reports that the U.S. is expanding its travel bans. The Senegal Women’s Basketball team will not attend a training camp in the United States, set to start June 22, after some of its players and staff had their visas...
Xi meets Ecuadorian president, Senegalese PM in Beijing
Global Times
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Top news Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko in Beijing on Friday. The two foreign leaders had just concluded their participation in the 2025 Summer Davos forum in...
Xi: China, Senegal inject fresh impetus into Global South cooperation
CGTN
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China is willing to work with Senegal to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, deepen their comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, bring more benefits to the two peoples, and inject fresh impetus into China-Africa friendship and Global...
Premier Li hails fruitful results in China-Senegal cooperation
CGTN
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Premier Li Qiang on Friday spoke highly of the fruitful results China and Senegal have achieved in their cooperation during a meeting with Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko in Beijing on Friday. Li said over the years, China and Senegal have...
Chinese premier meets Senegal's counterpart
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Prime Minister of Senegal Ousmane Sonko in Beijing on Friday. Li said over the years, China and Senegal have respected each other, treated each other as equals, and carried out...
IOC To Lead Gender Policy Reform With New Working Group
News Central TV
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June 27, 2025
Kirsty Coventry, newly appointed president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has announced the formation of a working group to address the complex issue of gender in sport. Speaking after her first executive board meeting on Thursday,...
The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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June 26, 2025
Donald Trump’s latest crackdown on undocumented workers — from sweeping ICE raids to the deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles to quash pro-migrant protests — has turned America’s immigration debate into a national flashpoint. But in cinema,...
Mass Immigration Turned Europe Unlivable. America Is Next.
Daily Wire
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June 26, 2025
Now that a critical mass of voters in our largest city have decided to support a socialist Muslim rapper from Uganda who openly despises every founding principle of this country, you’re hearing a lot of predictions about what New York might look...
ILO engages West African journalists on reframing labour migration reportage
Tribune Online
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June 30, 2025
In a bid to reframe the narrative around labour migration and fair recruitment across West Africa, especially in the media, journalists, trade union leaders, and labour advocates from 12 ECOWAS countries convened in Abuja from June 24 to 25, 2025,...
Designer Sarah Diouf On Launching Her Beyoncé-Approved African Luxury Label Tongoro
Essence
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June 30, 2025
To put it plainly, Sarah Diouf is an image architect. The designer with a degree in visual communication spent the better part of her early twenties spearheading a magazine. She tells me over a call that this portion of her life fueled her...
For Senegal women's basketball team, show goes on without US...
Modern Ghana
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Members of the Senegal women's national basketball team hustled across the court in central Dakar, dribbling and pivoting as the scuffing noise of their trainers echoed across the empty arena. Originally slated to train in the United States this...
For Senegal women's basketball team, show goes on without US visas
RTL Today
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Members of the Senegal women's national basketball team hustled across the court in central Dakar, dribbling and pivoting as the scuffing noise of their trainers echoed across the empty arena. Originally slated to train in the United States this...