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Voices: A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

COMMENT: As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel Kaboub

The Independent UK

Protesters and security forces clash in Senegal over election delay

Parliament voted to push the polls back to December after President Macky Sall announced a postponement last week.

Al Jazeera

Akon City: tumbleweed rolls through site of rapper’s Wakanda-inspired dream

Star unveiled plans for a city on the Senegal coast five years ago but the project has been beset by delays

The Guardian - UK

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‘There’s nothing in Mali’: The Timbuktu salesman roaming Senegal

Dicko, a salesman constantly on the move, is seeking greener pastures not in Europe but much closer to his native Mali.

Al Jazeera

In Niger, migrant footballers strike joy but field Europe dreams

Agadez, previously a major migration route before smuggling was criminalised in Niger, is home to many footballers.

Al Jazeera

A year into Ukraine war, food prices rise and aid drops in Niger

Effects of the war are still being felt in one of the world’s poorest countries as inflated prices eat into budgets.

Al Jazeera

For Senegalese landmine victims, a forgotten conflict lives on

The 40-year war between Senegal and rebels in its Casamance region has left legacies of landmines with diverse impacts.

Al Jazeera

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‘Senegal is the best’: Dakar dreams of World Cup upset over England

There is a buzz in the air of the capital and a real belief the Lions of Teranga can beat the Three Lions

The Guardian - UK

The African scuba divers rewriting the slave trade narrative

For so long the story of the slave trade has come from the settlers, Rachel Chason meets the people trying to change that

The Independent UK

At Guinea's only specialized snake bite clinic, doctors need luck and antivenom

Life or death in this country's only specialized clinic depends on how fast people can make the arduous trip to get there and the number of doses on hand.

WEKU

‘There are snakes – but we attack the fires’: refugees fight flames in the Sahara

Malian volunteers from a huge camp in Mauritania work tirelessly to put out blazes that threaten homes and land – and all without using water

The Guardian - UK

‘Children were hunted by armed men’: Malians seek safety in Mauritania

Thousands have exchanged fighting between government forces, jihadists and mercenaries linked to Russia, for the meagre security of border camps

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s Wagner group in Mali spurs refugee spike in Mauritania

Malians are fleeing to nearby Mauritania to escape from bandits, fighters, the army and now Russian operatives.

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