Senegal will break new ground Monday as West Africa s largest-ever proportion of women MPs take their seats in a newly elected legislature, stirring hopes of change in a country where patriarchal laws and attitudes are entrenched.
Senegal will break new ground Monday as West Africas largest-ever proportion of women MPs take their seats in a newly elected legislature, stirring hopes of change in a country where patriarchal laws and attitudes are entrenched. More than 44 percent of seats in Senegals next National Assembly wil ..
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For more than a century, the French general who shaped Senegal's former capital was hailed as a hero and a father figure, his bronze statue triumphantly standing on a square that bore his name.
The city of Saint-Louis was shaped by Louis Faidherbe, a French governor who also led brutal military campaigns in West Africa. What to do with his legacy has divided Senegal.