Dakar, Feb 20 (APS) – Magistrate Aly Ciré Ba was appointed First President of the Supreme Court during the meeting of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) held on Monday, APS has learned. Aly Ciré Ba, previously First President of the Dakar Court of Appeal, replaces Cheikh Tidiane Coulibaly in this position, admitted to … Read more
Dakar, Feb 20 (APS) – The Director of the Environment and Classified Establishments, Baba Dramé, has announced the forthcoming establishment of an institutional framework for the management of electronic and electrical waste. ”Currently the State is working on a decree which will organize the management of waste electronic and electrical equipment”, said Mr. Dramé. He … Read more
Dakar, Feb 19 (APS) – The National Audiovisual Regulatory Council (CNRA) declares that it is “constant and determined” to “not let anyone broadcast, for hours and live, scenes of violence involving children and adolescents”. In a statement, the CNRA, ”right in its boots”, wants to be ”inflexible” on this issue which should not be politicized, … Read more
Touba, Feb 18 (APS) – The second Caliph General of Serigne Touba, Serigne Fallou Mbacké, whose birth anniversary is celebrated through the ”Kaju Rajab” magal, has contributed a lot to the consolidation of a strong Senegalese nation, the government spokesman said on Saturday in Touba. “Serigne Fallou Mbacké contributed a lot to building the Senegalese … Read more
Addis Ababa, Feb 18 (APS) – The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat, stressed on Saturday in Addis Ababa the need to re-examine “the system of resistance” to unconstitutional changes, in order to make it more effective and more concerned with the economic and social conditions of the populations. “It … Read more
Matam, Feb 17 (APS) – The coordinator of Senegal’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) support project, Gabriel Ndiaye, on Friday invited the populations of the Matam region (north) to plant trees to mitigate the heat from greenhouse gas emissions. “Reforestation is one of the solutions to mitigate this expected climate, which will be very difficult to … Read more
Dakar, Feb 16 (APS) – The Minister of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy, Moussa Bocar Thiam, underlined, Thursday in Dakar, the need “to extend new communication technologies to all sectors of activity”, as part of the dematerialization of administrative procedures. “Here, there is a need to extend new communication technologies to all sectors of activity, … Read more
Kédougou, Feb 15 (APS) – The populations of the district of Fongolimbi (Kédougou region) want the road leading to their locality to the regional capital to be tarred, to get out of the isolation from which they have “suffered since independence” with a negative impact on economic development. This locality located on the mountain which … Read more