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  2. Women in Senegal - Wikipedia

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    Rural women have become increasingly involved in managing village forestry resources and operating millet and rice mills. [4] The government's rural development agency aims to organize village women and involve them more actively in the development process. Women play a prominent role in village health committees and prenatal and postnatal ...

  3. Moolaadé - Wikipedia

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    The film was a co-production between companies from several Francophone nations: Senegal, France, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Morocco, and Tunisia. It was filmed in the remote village of Djerrisso, Burkina Faso. The film argues strongly against the practice, depicting a village woman, Collé, who uses moolaadé (magical protection) to protect her ...

  4. In one region of Senegal, girls can become wrestlers - AOL

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    In Mlomp, a village in southern Senegal, dozens of teenagers in colorful jerseys are throwing each other to the ground to the rhythm of Afrobeats against a backdrop of palm trees. It's a common ...

  5. Villages of Senegal - Wikipedia

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    A judgement of the court of appeal in Dakar on 3 November 1934, recognised that the village had "a sort of customary civil personality." [10] When Senegal became independent, the status of the village was enshrined by article 1 of law N° 60-015 of 13 January 1960. It was subsequently defined in the reform of 1972.

  6. Bedick people - Wikipedia

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    Bedik girls, Iwol, Senegal. ... Boula Tene is a Bedik village of 200 in the southeast of Senegal, Tambacounda region. Trees at the edge of a Bedick village. References

  7. Popenguine-Ndayane - Wikipedia

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    Popenguine-Ndayane is a small town and urban commune on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal, located 70 km south of Dakar, on the Petite Côte, in the department of M'Bour in the region of Thiès Region. Since 2008, it brings together two localities, Popenguine and Ndayane.

  8. Keur Simbara - Wikipedia

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    Keur Simbara is a small village in the Thiès Region in Senegal. [1] The village is known internationally because of the efforts of its village chief Demba Diawara. He persuaded a group of villages to co-operate to renounce Female Genital Cutting. Diawara believed that in order for Keur Simbara to renounce FGM then he would need to persuade the ...

  9. Malicounda Bambara - Wikipedia

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    Malicounda Bambara is a village in the rural community of Malicounda within M'bour Department of the Thiès Region in western Senegal, located northeast of Saly on the Petite-Côte and approximately 85 km from the Senegalese capital of Dakar. It is one of three villages all named Malicounda, but with affixes Bambara, Sérère and Wolof, each ...