Check out this link to find out more about whats going on in Senegal:-

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18223.htm

Amnesty International is more up to date.

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/sen-summary-eng

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Cool look at the United Nations Site:

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonat...dex.asp?id=686

And Doctors Without Borders are helping this third world country:

Bacterial meningitis (*) kills more than 170,000 people each year. Although sporadic cases are detected in developed countries, the vast majority of deaths and suffering happen in Africa. Epidemics regularly hit countries in the area referred to as the African meningitis belt, which stretches across the continent from Senegal to Ethiopia. The total population at risk in the countries affected is around 300 million.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org...is_11-2002.cfm

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