By Nick Tattersall
KHELCOM FIELDS, Senegal, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of Senegalese Muslims, from bankers to bus drivers, flocked to the country’s dusty peanut fields this week in an annual show of devotion to the powerful Mouride brotherhood.
Bent double under blazing sunshine, ranks of men, women and children harvested the groundnuts by hand from the […]

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar screening!Where: Echo Park Film Center When: April 5th - 8 pm
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
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Episode 5 "Galsene: Hip Hop in Senegal" explores the history of hip-hop
culture in Senegal. From the old school MCs to the younger generation of
rappers - Episode 5 lays out the who, what, when, and where of the
hip-hop scene, and sheds light on both its political past as well as its
present state. The episode ends with […]

The United States congratulates President Abdoulaye Wade on his
re-election victory in Senegal’s elections last month. We further
commend the people of the Republic of Senegal for their unprecedented
high voter turnout. Their involvement is a testament to Senegal’s
commitment to a healthy democratic system. The United States stands
with the Senegalese people on this occasion and will continue […]

 
Democracy in Dakar, Episode 4 - "Wade Wins". This episode shows the calm after the storm. A very eerie calm indeed as all of Dakar seems stunned by the election results, where Wade has seemed to have won 56% of the vote. This episode shows the calm on the streets and some incisive interviews with […]

DAKAR, Senegal:
Senegal’s electoral authorities on Sunday confirmed President Abdoulaye
Wade as the winner of last month’s election, rejecting charges of
cheating and officially giving the octogenarian president five more
years at the helm of the West African nation.
Wade won with about 1.9 million votes, or 56 percent of valid
ballots, compared with 15 percent for runner-up Idrissa Seck, declared
Senegal’s […]

The compilation African Underground: The Depths of Dakar
furthers Brooklyn label Nomadic Wax’s mission statement of uncovering,
recording, and distributing new talent from Africa, but to catalog the
disc as a mere label sampler would be misleading. Released in
conjunction with the label’s Democracy in Dakar documentary (co-produced with partners Sol Productions), Depths of Dakar acts as both a […]

Wed Mar 7, 2007 8:43 AM GMT15
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal will hold long-delayed legislative elections on June 3, the government said on Tuesday, with newly reelected President Abdoulaye Wade hoping to maintain his parliamentary majority.
"The legislative elections are fixed for June 3, 2007," Interior Minister Ousmane Ngom told a news conference in the capital Dakar.
The […]

Listen to this story… by Tony Cox and Charlayne Hunter-Gault
News & Notes, March 2, 2007 · Charges are brought by the Hague on two Sudanese men over possible crimes in Darfur; and a look at elections in Senegal.

By Phuong Tran, Dakar02 March 2007President Abdoulaye Wade was declared the winner of Senegal’s presidential election late Thursday, giving him five more years in power. Analysts are already speculating about his second term as well as the octogenarian president’s legacy.
Mr. Wade’s campaign slogan was that he needed more time to finish first-term projects. He […]