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	Kaolack Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a port on the Saloum River.
		Kaolack is the international centre of the Ibrahimiyyah branch of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order, whose mosque is on the city's outskirts.
		The Kaolack Region is subdivided into three departments (sub-regions): the Kaolack Department (the northwestern area), the Nioro du Rip Department (the southwestern area), and the Kaffrine Department (the much larger eastern area).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaolack_Region (209 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Kaolack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kaolack (Kawlax in Wolof) is a town of 172,305 people (2002 census) on the north bank of the River Saloum and the N1 road in Senegal.
		It is the capital of the Kaolack Region, which borders The Gambia to the south.
		Kaolack is an important regional market town and is Senegal's main peanut trading and processing center.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Kaolack (352 words)

	Sunuker.com:Le pays de la teranga dans le web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The region corresponds roughly to the precolonial kingdom of
		The Diourbel Region is composed of three departments (sub-regions): the Department of Bambey, the Department of Diourbel, and the Department of Mbacke.
		Located in a rice-growing region, the city produces peanut oil, frozen fish, and orange juice and is an outlet to the sea for the shipment of peanuts and other products of the southern hinterlands.
	www.sunuker.com /CityRural.html (1882 words)

	Lonely Planet World Guide \| Destination Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kaolack (pronounced KOH-lack) is a regional capital with over 200,000 inhabitants and is the centre of Senegal's groundnut industry.
		Kaolack's main attractions are its beautiful large mosque, decorated in the Moroccan style, and covered market - the second largest in Africa after Marrakesh - with Sudanese-style arches and arcades.
		Its borders are met by Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south, Mali to the east, Mauritania to the north and the North Atlantic Ocean to the west.
	www.statraveluk.lonelyplanet.com /africa/senegal/index.html (4432 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Under the burning west African sun, the fields of millet and groundnuts are scorched yellow, having barely pushed through the parched earth at a time of year they should be green and ready for harvest.
		All through the main groundnut valley, the scene is similar for miles and miles as one passes through villages in the Djourbel, Kaolack and Fatick regions.
		Humanitarian officials said people in the countryside had been sounding the alarm since May. In Senegal the average annual per capital income is 500 dollars (euros), according to UN figures Earlier this month, Wade's government came under fire for failing to assist the drought-stricken rural poor.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/08/31/fea03.html (595 words)

	africast.com - Health News Article
		A French water, agriculture and health charity, EAST, is conducting the seminar in cooperation with the Health and Social Development Project of Kaolack.
		The seminar follows a survey undertaken by EAST and CARITAS in 35 schools in Kaolack region.
		Pupils would play a significant role in disseminating the relevant health information since they are effective agents for the transformation of society, one of the teachers in Kaolack, Kader Sy, observed.
	news.africast.com /health_article.php?newsID=2229 (183 words)

	Kaolack Region Map: Ainoumal [13°58'0"N 15°8'0"W] — Yougoure Keur Morbeye \| Senegal Google Satellite Maps
		Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
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	www.maplandia.com /senegal/kaolack (811 words)

	Kaolack - kaolack in senegal
		Kaolack (Kawlax in Wolof) is a town of around 150,000 people on the River Saloum and the N1 road in Senegal.
		It is known as an important market town and as the main peanut trading town in Senegal.
		It is also a major center of kaolack in senegal Islamic education, as it is the center of Ibrahimiyya branch of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order founded by Ibrayima Ñas.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-Africa-E---K/Kaolack.html (116 words)

	WFP
		Her neatly braided hair and blue dress form a colourful contrast to the dusty backdrop of her village of Sibassor in the arid Kaolack region of Senegal.
		WFP provides nutritious meals to children in some of the poorest regions of the world, as a simple but concrete way to give them a chance to learn and thrive.
		With a decline in the economy in the 1990s, the nutritional status of people in the poorest regions of Senegal began to decline as well.
	www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/africa/senegal/040220_senegal.html (955 words)

	Africare – A leading nonprofit organization, specializing in aid to Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Africa's rural population could transform what is now the world's "hungriest region" into one self-sufficient in food, producing enough to feed families, communities and even whole nations.
		Africa's small farmers are also the day-to-day stewards of its natural resources: the soils for planting crops, the grasslands for grazing herds, the water for irrigation and home use, and the trees that supply wood for fuel.
		One such program continues to benefit nearly 350,000 people in farm communities in the Kaolack region of Senegal, West Africa.
	www.africare.org /at_work/seeds (858 words)

	Concerted Efforts - Pape & Cheikh
		Steeped in the traditions of their Serer region of central Senegal, but citing Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and Joan Armatrading among their prime influences, Pape and Cheikh brilliantly encompass both concepts of folk music.
		Later, at the suggestion of a foreign aid organisation, he moved back to the Kaolack region to take part in a batik-printing project, spending seven years in a village in what was once the Serer kingdom of Sine.
		The unchanging savannah landscape, bleached by remorseless sunlight and dotted with immense baobab trees in whose hollow trunks griots - traditional praise singers - were buried in times gone by, had a profound effect on Pape as did the spirit of the Serer people and their music.
	www.concertedefforts.com /artists_pape.asp (1235 words)

	About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In fact, as we discover from Region of Kaolack: Actual Enrollment Numbers 2006, only 1804 girls are enrolled.
		In the Kaolack region overall, the failure rate for girls is staggering.
		Likewise, unlike the Kaolack regional dropout rate of 53% per year, for participants in the 10,000 Girls program, the dropout rate has consistently been 2% or less per year.
	10000girls.org /book/print/73?PHPSESSID=eb780f876c2fba81d7b6c84a69a0... (1933 words)

	Top20Senegal.com - Your Top20 Guide to Senegal!
		Investment rose steadily from 13.8 percent of GDP in 1993 to 16.5 percent in 1997.
		The two largest and most prominent Sufi orders in Senegal are the Tijaniyya, whose largest sub-groups are based in the cities of Tivaouane and Kaolack, and the MurÄ«diyya (Murid), based in the city of Touba.
		The Halpulaar, a widespread ethnic group found along the Sahel from Chad to Senegal, representing 20 percent of the senegalese population, were the first to be converted to Islam.
	www.top20senegal.com (1540 words)

	WHO \| Cholera in Senegal- update 7
		Cases have occurred in the regions of Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Saint Louis, Tambacounda, and Thies.
		The Ministry has reported an increase in the number of cases in the district of Kaolack, in the region of Kaolack (region's total of 26 cases) and in the district of Foundiougne in the region of Saint Louis (region's total of 119 cases, 2 deaths).
		The WHO Regional Office for Africa and Country Office have provided medicines and equipment worth over 8 million CFA to the Ministry of Health to help control the outbreak.
	www.who.int /entity/csr/don/2005_07_15/en/index.html (177 words)

	Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In contrast to the 53% dropout rate for Kaolack in general, the 10,000 Girls program has consistently maintained a dropout rate of 2% or less.
		As opposed to the 53% dropout rate for the region of Kaolack.
		As the statistics reveal, in the Kaolack Region, only one out of every twenty-five girls eligible for High School has been enrolled in High School.
	10000girls.org /book/print/78?PHPSESSID=a6e942677c4cde3cd46571098417... (963 words)

	Gates Award Nomination
		Reaching out to his tens of millions of adherents and their constituents around the globe, he has been able to work with global efforts in the development field in a very effective way.
		In the process of successfully advocating health issues of concern to local, regional, and national communities, AAII grasped the magnitude of the problems facing the global community.
		In a bold move this past March, AAII in collaboration with the St. Christopher School of Medicine in Naples, Florida (USA) and established a School of Medicine in the capital of Dakar, Senegal.
	home.earthlink.net /~halimcisse/gates_award-letter.html (1464 words)

	Unasylva - No. 150 - Forestry and the crisis in Africa - West Africa: Impressions and interviews
		One commented that the region, which formerly enjoyed a Sudano-Guinean climate, is now a Sahelo-Sudanian climate zone.
		Another FAO expert, in a village south of St Louis du Senegal, one of the regions most affected by desertification, noted that the peasants quickly tire of the large government-organized tree-planting programmes but tend their own small plots with great care.
		Of course the region is in the front line of the war against the Sahara, but the fact that it has now been planted certainly seems to be driving the desert back - you can see this with your own eyes.
	www.fao.org /docrep/r5265E/r5265e04.htm (3233 words)

	Situation Reports: Sahel Humanitarian Crisis, FEWS Senegal Monthly Food Security Update Apr 2006 - The lean season ...
		The month of April signals the beginning of the lean period throughout most of the northern part of the country and with it a cyclical deterioration in the living conditions of poor and middle-income households.
		The combined effects of insufficient family food reserves (depending on the type of household and region in question), and high grain prices are forcing poor and middle-income households to search for seasonal employment in urban areas and sell straw and firewood.
		Supplies of locally grown grain (millet, sorghum and maize) in the corridor between Ross Béthio (in the Saint-Louis region) and Ourossogui (in the Matam region) are tight.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6SK7QH?OpenDocument (1001 words)

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		Agne’s problems began last week when a privately-owned newspaper L’Observateur reported that during a rally in the central region of Kaolack, he had called “on the Senegalese to follow the example of Ukraine and take to the streets in their millions to demand the departure of the president.”
		Both the editor of the newspaper and the local reporter who attended the rally were called in for questioning by police ahead of Agne’s arrest on Saturday.
		Other opposition leaders in this country seen as a haven of democracy in the turbulent region, were equally critical.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=47419&SelectRegion=West_Africa&... (706 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ballet Memphis is the region's only major ballet company and performs at the Orpheum Theatre.
		The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.
		Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority, which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Memphis,_Tennessee (3021 words)

	Faye - 2006
		Faye M, Kuper H, Dineen B, Bailey R. Rapid assessment for prioritisation of trachoma control at community level in one district of the Kaolack Region, Senegal.
		The objective of this study was to use a modified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling methodology to classify communities according to prevalence of active trachoma and to estimate the prevalence of trachoma and trichiasis in Nioro department, Kaolack Region, Senegal.
		A survey was conducted using two-stage cluster sampling to select 50 children aged 2-5 years in each of 33 clusters.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /EPI/rapidsurveys/faye_2006rs.html (260 words)

	Senegal, Page 3 - Stand With Africa. A Campaign of Hope
		But recent studies in Senegal that track trends in HIV knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviors in selected groups in a population have revealed gaps in knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of the epidemic particularly in high risk areas such as Kaolack.
		Bordering the Gambia, Kaolack is a transit area where travelers and commercial sex workers converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared in the region.
		•50% of the population in the region of Kaolack will have a better understanding and knowledge of HIV/AIDS and will adopt responsible behavior reducing the levels of new infections.
	www.standwithafrica.org /hiv_aids/senegal3.asp (327 words)

	Kaolack, Senegal Travel Guide \| Blogs, Map, Time Zone
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		I travelled to this place only once, it was very hot and there were plenty of flies,food was quite scarce,the imposing Bank fully staffed...
		Be the first person to upload a photo of Kaolack, Senegal
	www.travelpost.com /AF/Senegal/Kaolack/Kaolack/1835769 (77 words)

	Kaolack, Senegal, Pictures
		city information and pictures about Kaolack with discussion forum, map, real estate and Kaolack population & photos
		An important river port, it is one of the nation's largest communities and a trade and processing center for locally produced peanuts and salt.
		Kaolack People - photos and pictures about Kaolack
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Senegal/Kaolack_city.html (104 words)

	Yo, Philly Future! -- Live from Kaolack, Senegal \| Philly Future - Philadelphia Blogs - The News YOU Write
		Of course, the bloggers here are girls-- mostly from the Kaolack region of Senegal.
		They bust their asses to stay in school, to get training, and get jobs regardless.
		Not much romanitic IMO about Kaolack: hot, dusty and with far too many flies.
	www.phillyfuture.org /node/3498 (775 words)

	Africare – A leading nonprofit organization, specializing in aid to Africa
		Kaolack region: Credit program for agricultural enterprise development (Africare, U.S. Agency for International Development); and women's literacy training (Banyan Tree Foundation, Force for Good Foundation, Cissy Patterson Trust, Government of Senegal)
		Kaolack region (Kaffrine, Kounghuel and Nioro districts): Primary health care (Government of Senegal, Government of the United Kingdom)
		Kaolack and Tambacounda regions: Food security and microenterprise development (U.S. 480/Food for Progress)
	www.africare.org /about/annualreport/2001/summaryprograms.html (1502 words)

	Second international workshop on participatory forestry in Africa/Deuxième atelier international sur la foresterie ...
		Development of participatory forestry in Senegal: a case study of the Kaolack Region and Dankou Forest experience
		Community forestry in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon: a partnership for conservation
		Decentralized forest revenue and local development in Cameroon: lessons learned from recent experiences and proposal of an enhancement programme for local capacity.
	www.fao.org /docrep/006/y4807b/y4807b00.htm (1045 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		11 regions (regions, singular - region); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Louga, Matam, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor
		Annual inflation had been pushed down to the low single digits.
		The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau attempt to stem refugees, cross border raids, arms smuggling, and political instability from a separatist movement in Senegal's Casamance region
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/sg.html (991 words)

	Directory of Cities and Towns in Region de Kaolack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Directory of Cities and Towns in Region de Kaolack
		Directory of Cities and Towns in Region de Kaolack, Senegal
		Alphabetical listing of Places in Region de Kaolack
	www.fallingrain.com /world/SG/10 (49 words)

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