2008-10-03
Minister Sues Jailed Newspaper Editor for Defamation
El Malick Seck, jailed editor-in-chief of the privately-owned newspaper "24 Heures Chrono", will appear in a Dakar court on 28 October 2008 to answer defamation charges brought against him by the country's Minister of the Interior, Sheikh Tidiane Sy.2008-09-30
Country And France in Legal Battle Over Ferry Disaster
As many Senegalese have been doing for the past six years now, Mrs Mame Madior Boye who was the Prime Minister in 2002 vividly remembers a day in September that year, marked by some as the "darkest nightmare" in the nation's recent history. 2008-09-26
Malnutrition at Crisis Level in Northeast
Poor rains and rising rice prices have contributed to increasing malnutrition to alarming levels in at least three regions of Senegal. 2008-09-24
New Corruption Index Gives Region Mixed Report
Nine West African countries shot up while nine others sank lower in the 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranking of perceptions of corruption in 180 countries. 2008-09-23
Street Children at Risk of Exploitation
The Senegalese capital, Dakar, is filled with street children from villages in Guinea Bissau. 2008-09-22
Families Demand Justice for Joola Ferry Deaths
On 26 September, it will have been six years since 1,865 people died on the Joola ferry, which carried more than three times the number of passengers it was licensed to, when it sank off the coast of Senegal. 2008-09-16
Victims Charge Habré With Crimes Against Humanity
Fourteen abuse victims, backed by a coalition of African and international rights groups, today filed complaints with a Senegalese prosecutor accusing the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré of crimes against humanity and torture. 2008-09-16
Dakar Newspaper Editor Gets Three Years in Prison for Libelling President
Reporters Without Borders urges President Abdoulaye Wade to quickly embark on a thorough overhaul of Senegal's press legislation after El Malick Seck, the editor of the Dakar-based daily 24 Heures Chrono, was today sentenced to three years in prison for an article claiming that the president was involved in money laundering. 2008-09-17
Following Appeal, Court Exonerates Journalist of Two Offences, But He Still Faces Possible Prison Term
Lawyers of El Malick Seck, jailed editor-in-chief of "24 Heures Chrono", a Dakar-based daily newspaper, on 12 September 2008 appealed the three-year prison sentence given their client by a court for publishing "false news", "inciting the public" and "public insult". 2008-09-17
Court Awards Damages to Newspaper, Convicts 12 Assailants
On 8 September 2008, a court in Dakar awarded an amount of 20 million FCFA (about US$43,187) as compensation to "L'As", a privately-owned Dakar-based newspaper, which was recently ransacked by individuals loyal to Minister of Aviation Farba Senghor. 2008-09-16
Q And A On the Hissène Habré Case
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