Tag Archives: Senegal

At least 40 soldiers are killed in an attack on a military base, Chad’s president says

Muhamad Yehia DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Unidentified assailants killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west, Chad’s presidency said Monday. President Mahamat Deby Itno visited the base in Barkaram, an island in Chad’s Lake region, early morning and announced the launch of a …

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Are Africa’s leaders too old to govern the young?

Muhamad Yehia Africa is home to 54 countries and it has the youngest population in world, but the majority of the continent’s leaders are elderly, many in their seventies upwards, like the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya who is in his early nineties. Increasingly, the younger generations are publicly demanding …

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A fool’s mission: Trying to track the impact of EU migration funding in Senegal

Muhamad Yehia.. DAKAR Last year, I set out to investigate the on-the-ground impact of the tens of millions of euros the EU has spent trying to address the root causes of migration in Senegal. The funding for these efforts came from the EU Trust Fund for Africa – a five-billion-euro …

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