| Fri, 3 Sep 2010 Koranic teachers arrested over child begging
| DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese security forces have arrested seven Koranic teachers for forcing children to panhandle, a police official said on Friday, days after the West African state announced a crack down on public begging. | The predominately Muslim country ... | Africa in pictures: 28 August-3 September 2010
On Tuesday, young boys from Senegal’s Koranic schools play by the roadside where they beg for daily alms in the capital, Dakar. Last week, the government said it was stepping up a campaign to stop begging in the West African nation. Two days later, Senegalese-born rap... | Senegal releases beggars - police
| Dakar - Almost 200 street beggars rounded up in Dakar last week, after the Senegalese government banned begging in public, have been freed, while 39 foreigners are to be repatriated, a police source said Friday. | "All the beggars who were arrested have been released.... | Spike in food prices fans riot fears
| JOHANNESBURG - A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry - and erupting in anger - in the world's poorest countries. | A spike in food prices has triggered deadly riots in Mozambique this week, ... | Mozambique riots spotlight world food price spike
| DONNA BRYSON | Associated Press Writer= JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry — and erupting in anger — in the world's poorest countries. | A spike in food prices h... | Senegal's Youssou N'Dour launches TV station
| Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour, who owns a major media group in Dakar, has launched his private television station after a difference with the authorities over its finance. | TFM (Television Futurs Medias) is a cultural channel that went on the air on Wednesday ev... | Mozambique riots spotlight world food price spike
| A woman passes nearby burning tyres in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept.... | Women pass a damaged vehicle in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010... | JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between g... | |
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