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2023-07-09 20:06:27

Diamniadio, July 9 (APS) – Senegal will have a fleet of 22 trains at the end of the works of the second phase of the Regional Express Train (TER), allowing a “significant increase in traffic thanks to the connection with the Blaise Diagne de Diass international airport”, announced the President of the Republic, Macky Sall.

“From fifteen trains in the first phase, each able to accommodate up to five hundred and sixty-five (565) passengers, we will soon increase to twenty-two (22) trains in the second phase of the Regional Express Train,” said underlined the Head of State, inaugurating on Saturday the TER railway station at Blaise Diagne airport at a cost of eight billion CFA francs.

The reinforcement of this park will thus allow a “significant increase in traffic thanks to the connection with the Blaise Diagne de Diass international airport”.

”At the end of the work, he said, AIBD passengers will have the choice of taking the motorway or the TER as in all modern countries. Also, the TER will offer passengers from Dakar and the surrounding area new transit possibilities.”

The Head of State underlined his ambition to ”offer” the Senegalese ”a modern mass transport system”. ”I remind you that our ambition with the TER was to offer Senegal a modern mass transport system that meets the requirements of comfort, regularity, speed, mobility, but also safety and security. This is the meaning of the TER but also of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) which will soon be better in service as a modern mass transport system worthy of an emerging country”.

President Sall believes that this must be done ”in continuity of service while respecting environmental standards since the TER runs on electricity”.

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2023-07-09 15:01:00

Shortly before the summer holidays there was an exciting high point in the almost-finished school year at von Saldern-Gymnasium: Twelve students from many different states of the USA, from Alaska to Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana to Florida, were in Brandenburg for 15 days. A stay in Bonn and Cologne follows.

This trip to Germany is financed by a grant from the PAD (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst der Kultusministerkonferenz Deutschlands). Only the very best German students were allowed to apply for this. The group is accompanied by German teacher Stephanie Zachar from Colorado Springs.

In Brandenburg, the Americans stayed with host families to immerse themselves in cultural life in Germany and improve their language skills. With the host siblings, they attended regular classes, had special German lessons and, above all, there were many excursions and activities: visiting the Bundestag, Berlin on Bike, Futurium, Potsdam Castles, canoeing, printing in the sun sail, following in the footsteps of Gertrud von Saldern in the St. Gotthardtkirche and so on.

In the two intensive weeks, new friendships were made, and many of the young people will definitely see each other once more, whether in Brandenburg or in the USA. Or they meet once more while studying, some of the Americans are aiming to study in Germany.

A big thank you goes to all the host families who made this traditional intercultural exchange possible and who took great care of the guests.

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2023-07-09 19:16:00

Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 8:16 PM

Rabat – Three people died and 25 others were injured, 5 of whom are in critical condition, in an accident that occurred on Sunday on the Marrakech-Agadir highway, at the level of Douar “Draa”, Anfifa commune, circle of Iminetanout, learns -on with the local authorities of the province of Chichaoua.

The accident occurred when a passenger coach heading for Agadir collided with a freight truck traveling in the same direction, the same source said.

As soon as they were informed of the accident, the local authorities, the Gendarmerie units in addition to the civil protection services went to the scene of the tragedy to ensure the intervention, provide first aid to the injured and evacuate them by ambulances. from Civil Protection and local authorities to hospitals in the region.

An investigation has been opened by the Gendarmerie services under the authority of the competent general prosecutor’s office to determine the circumstances of this road tragedy, concludes the same source.

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