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	Diourbel Region, Senegal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The regional capital is the city of Diourbel.
		The region corresponds roughly to the precolonial kingdom of Bawol and is still called by that name, and inhabitants of the area are called Bawol-Bawol.
		The Diourbel Region is composed of three departments (sub-regions): the Department of Bambey, the Department of Diourbel, and the Department of Mbacke.
	www.kproxy.com /servlet/redirect.srv/p5.p1.pjt.perutbrrxq.pgka/wiki/Diourbel_Region (120 words)

	Senegal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 13th and 14th centuries, the area came under the influence of the Mandingo empires to the east; the Jolof Empire of Senegal also was founded during this time.
		Density in these areas varies from about 77km² in the west-central region to 2 km² in the arid eastern section.
		Senegal is divided into 11 regions (régions), and then subdivided into 34 departments (départements), 94 arrondissements, and various communes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senegal (1901 words)

	Human Interest \| UNAUSA.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Malaria is by far the leading cause of death in Matam -hitting young children and pregnant women especially hard-but communities and health officials are working together to step up their fight against the disease.
		Matam is also the pilot region for an international schools-based project to promote healthy behaviors among children, including protection against malaria.
		The first regional conference on birth registration in West and Central Africa is sponsored jointly by UNICEF, PLAN and UNFPA, and brings together 24 countries to address ways of improving birth registration systems.
	www.unausa.org /site/pp.aspx?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=474175&printmode=1 (959 words)

	Storms kill 3 in west Africa
		In the worst incident, a vehicle with five people was washed away in the central region of Nioro, said a rescue official on national radio.
		There was a third fatality, in the northern region of Matam, when a six-year-old child died, according to the national APS news agency.
		The authorities declared an emergency in the northern region of Kanel, where 152mm of rain fell in 24 hours, the reports said.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_1400426,00.html (214 words)

	Migration and AIDS: social control, a brake on the spread of HIV in Senegal?
		Two locations with highly contrasting social situations were studied: the urban centre of Richard-Toll (in the lower valley) and the rural area of Matam (in the middle of the valley).
		At Richard-Toll international emigration was turned towards countries having low HIV prevalence (Mauritania), whereas the Matam area is the source of substantial international emigration towards countries with higher prevalence (Ivory Coast, Central Africa).
		Thus, in the Matam region, the international migrants’ choice of fidelity, on their return, does not represent only a concern for health.
	www.innovations-report.de /html/berichte/medizin_gesundheit/bericht-40343.html (964 words)

	Senegal Regions
		It assigns a new FIPS code to the new Matam region, and changes the codes for two old regions.
		In January, 2002, Matam, formerly a department in Saint-Louis region, became a region of its own, divided into three new departments of Kanel, Matam, and Ranérou Ferlo.
		The regions are divided into 34 départements, which are further subdivided into arrondissements.
	www.statoids.com /usn.html (436 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At Matam, the network was to connect into a 90 kV, 86 km TL to Kaedi.
		The other important sub-component of this program is the preparation; implementation, and monitoring of a regional environmental health plan, in coordination the respective health authorities and their programs in the three countries.
		Installation of telecommunications equipment for transmission operations (using dual-purpose optical fiber technology to link Manantali to all the HV substations and the national grids of the three countries) was undertaken during the Manantali project, and SOGEM signed an agreement with the telecom companies to operate the system.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2005/01/11/000090341_20050111090406/Rendered/INDEX/27481.txt (11501 words)

	Rainstorms kill three, others missing, in west Africa
		In the worst single incident, a vehicle carrying five people was washed away in the central region of Nioro, a rescue official said on national radio.
		A third fatality occurred in the northern region of Matam, where a six-year-old child died, according to the national APS news agency.
		The authorities declared an emergency in the northern region of Kanel, where 152 millimetres (six inches) of rain fell in 24 hours, the reports said.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bi/Qsenegal-weather.RW9c_DaB.html (221 words)

	: kamakoti.org
		During the course of his peregrination in the Himalayan region, Sankaracharya desired to have darshan of Sri Paramesvara having his abode in Kailas.
		He is said to have attained mukti at a place near Vindhya region on Krishna Tritiya in the month of Kartika of the cyclic year Vibhava (69 AD).
		He intensified the activities of the Matam to cover new social objectives -education, health, employment, temple renovation etc. It is due to His untiring efforts, Kamakoti Peetam established religious and social institutions in many parts of the country.
	www.kamakoti.org /peeth/origin.html (10247 words)

	Middle East Online
		As representatives of nine African countries gather in Algiers Tuesday to discuss ways to fight deadly swarms of locusts, hundreds of kilometres (miles) to the south in Senegal teams are on a war footing to destroy the voracious insects.
		Arouna Ba and his colleagues Ibrahima and Babacar are on duty in the Matam region in eastern Senegal, aboard their green truck, loaded with enough insecticide to treat 200 hectares (490 acres).
		In his office in Matam Falilou Faye, regional director of rural development, is worried that the arrival of the locusts coincides this year with ideal conditions for their reproduction and the laying of eggs.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=10760 (489 words)

	UNICEF - At a glance: Senegal - Ending female genital mutilation and cutting in Senegal
		Oureye Sall, a former traditional cutter from the village of Matam, and her assistant attend a public declaration ceremony where communities announce their decision to end FGM.
		MATAM, Senegal, 24 November 2005 — The international non-governmental organization Tostan is working in Senegal to create dialogue within communities about female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) through a holistic, basic education programme, conducted in local languages.
		According to the government’s recent Demographic and Health Survey, FGM/C was practiced by 94 per cent of the population in the region of Matam where Oureye grew up.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/senegal_30046.html (788 words)

	Army Organizes Event To Encourage The Abandonment Of FGC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Senegalese Army organized a large event on FGC and early marriages at the Ourossogui Military Base in the region of Matam, Senegal on March 22, 2004.
		Khalidou Sy (Regional Coordinator of Tostan) and Mr.
		Tostan village participants came from throughout the regions of Matam and Saint Louis to support and witness the conference.
	www.tostan.org /news-03-22-04.htm (517 words)

	President cancels holiday as locusts invade north (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Officials said swarms of mature locusts had begun laying eggs in the northern province of Matam, prompting fears of large-scale crop destruction by their offspring in a few weeks' time.
		"We are currently seeing lots of locust swarms entering the Matam region (from neighbouring Mauritania) and locusts have already settled over more than 10,000 hectares," Mamadou Moustapha Ndao, the governor of Matam region, told IRIN by telephone on Tuesday.
		A journalist based in the town of Matam, which lies on the frontier with Mauritania, told IRIN that the insects had already begun to strip leaves from trees in the semi-arid region and destroy new pasture springing up after recent rains.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=42504 (828 words)

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		On this day, Sall was among a crowd of men, women and children attending a ceremony in which members of 70 villages from the country’s northeastern Matam region publicly renounced female genital mutilation (FGM) as well as forced and early marriages.
		In the predominantly Pular region of Matam, more than 94 percent of women aged between 15 and 49 have been cut, according to a national health study released earlier this year.
		In the Matam region, which by UNICEF estimates is 99 percent Muslim, the majority of people believe that the practice has its roots in Islam.
	www.plusnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=50286&SelectRegion=West_Africa (1203 words)

	FEWS NET Region/Country Center
		There are enormous disparities in the condition of herbaceous vegetation, particularly in the Sikasso region, where the reestablishment period for herbaceous plant cover stretched from April to July, with new vegetative growth peaking in the second and third dekads of June.
		The situation varies widely from region to region and, in some cases, from one district to another within the same region.
		The hardest hit area is the Matam region of Senegal, where monthly rainfall deficits range from 40 to 70% depending on the location.
	www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=r1&m=1000665&pageID=monthliesDoc (2375 words)

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		Location of the outbreaks: - Galoya Peul village, Podor district, Saint-Louis region (16,051189 N - 13,8993 W), in the north-western part of the country; - Dabia Olédji village, Matam district, Matam region (16,00640 N - 13,95185 W), in the north-eastern part of the country.
		- Outbreak of Matam: 94 sheep and 89 goats.
		- Outbreak of Matam: 55 sheep and 15 goats.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:476591::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,20174 (395 words)

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		Investment rose steadily from 13.8 percent of GDP in 1993 to 16.5 percent in 1997.
		Density in these areas varies from about 77 Square metre km² in the west-central region to 2 km²in the arid eastern section.
		Senegal has a Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal wide variety of ethnic groups and, accordingly, multiple languages are spoken.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Senegal.html (1631 words)

	U.S. Mission To Italy
		Washington -- In the dusty Matam region of northern Senegal, where the sands of the Sahara desert blow down from Mauritania, residents of the town of Polel Diaobé recently took to the streets in what may have been the community's first protest.
		According to the World Health Organization (WHO), FGC is practiced in at least 28 African countries and in some parts of Asia and the Middle East.
		The practice, which varies from region to region, is defined as any procedure to remove part or all of the female external genitalia.
	www.usembassy.it /viewer/article.asp?article=/file2004_08/alia/a4081108.htm (901 words)

	Matam Region: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Matam Region: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Matam is a starkly beautiful, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A land populated by the tall nobel Pulaar-speaking Touceuleur people who brought Islam to Senegal in the 18th century and gave us the music of Baaba Maal in the 21st.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Matam_Region.htm (74 words)

	Thirteen Communities That Dared (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For her, the declaration "will certainly benefit future generations of girls in the Fouta region." The Swedish ambassador has given financial support fifty-four villages in the region and she is very happy and proud of the results they have achieved.
		Ibrahima Sakho, Administrator representing the Governor of the Matam region, in the presence of the "Prefet" Mar Lô, recalled the different events that led to this declaration.
		The government strives through various services, associations, and regional, national or international NGOs, to ensure that these rights are respected and that this translates into the well-being and health of people at all levels of society.
	www.intact-network.net /main2/document/articles/fouta.htm (1590 words)

	Anna Lindhs Minnesfond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With the vision and possibility of an improved life, families are not forced to send their children away and subjecting them to the risk of forced labour and human traffickers.
		Little more than a month after the murder in Stockholm, a ceremony was held in the Matam region, northern Senegal.
		A year ago, the Anna Lindh Association was founded in Matam as a result of the Tostan non-formal education program.
	www.annalindhsminnesfond.se /english/winners.asp?ID=68 (665 words)

	FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 09/99 - SENEGAL (10 September) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rains increased notably in the eastern regions during the third dekad.
		In Diourbel and Thiès region in the centre-north, prices were between 100 to 150 F.CFA in 1999 compared to 125 to 210 F.CFA last year.
		However, food supply difficulties are reported in some areas (Saint-Louis region (Matam, Podor and Dagana) or Louga and Diourbel regions) where rainfed production was poor.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/x3109e/pays/sen9909e.htm (229 words)

	Agenzia Fides - Agenzia della Congregazione per l'Evangelizzazione dei Popoli
		Malaria is by far the leading cause of death in the Senegalese region of Matam where this year, the main events of the Day will take place.
		Matam is also a pilot region for an international schools-based project to promote healthy-behaviours among children, including protection against malaria.
		More than 600 million people most of them children living in sub-Saharan Africa face the daily threat of death because new, effective treatments are not available where they live.
	www.fides.org /eng/news/2004/0404/23_2178.html (435 words)

	Diabou Balde, rice farmer, Manthiankaning, Kolda region
		The region is the eastern part of the Casamance, the thin wedge of land that forms Senegal’s southern border.
		It is crammed between English-speaking Gambia to the north—a tiny country surrounded on three sides by Senegal due to colonial-era geopolitics—and French-speaking Guinea and Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau to the south.
		Until recently, the region was the scene of a 20-year battle between separatist rebels and government forces, further isolating the region’s population and threatening food security.
	www.newfarm.org /international/senegal/0306/index.shtml (1769 words)

	Mauritania Offshore
		Mauritania has been spraying swarms of locusts with insecticide since June and a senior agriculture ministry official in neighbouring Senegal told IRIN that the first swarms had already landed in the north of the country.
		Ndene Lo, the Agriculture Ministry official in charge of protecting vegetation, said that the first groups of locusts had been spotted on June 20 in the Podor area, although they were not too dense.
		Two days later locusts were sighted further east in the region of Matam.
	archive.wn.com /2004/07/09/1400/p/79/1464a4a34c0d48.html (2100 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The state-controlled media has quoted Gabard Diop, head of the national firefighting service, as saying that motorized pumps were being used in several regions to remove flood waters.
		The authorities declared an emergency in the northern region of Kanel, where 152 millimeters (six inches) of rain fell in 24 hours, the reports said.
		The Red Cross said on Friday August 9 that about 200,000 of the 450,000 inhabitants of Kassala had fled their homes, while 70 percent of houses in nearby villages had been damaged and warned that millions of people are under threat from the flooding, which is spreading to other regions.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-08/11/article09.shtml (789 words)

	EMPRES: Transboundary Animal Diseases Bulletin
		Serological and clinical data generated for the third consecutive year by the FAO-supported regional Rift Valley fever (RVF) surveillance system contributed to a better understanding of the epidemiology of the disease at the regional level, as well as countries' enhanced preparation to respond to occurrences of the disease.
		In Mauritania, viral circulation was observed in August in the Assaba region, Keikratt (four IgM-positive sheep and goats out of 30), and a human case was detected in November (village of Bachaat, Mbout, Gorgol region).
		The second outbreak was confirmed in four herds located 17 km south of Thilogne (Matam region), also near the Senegal River.
	www.fao.org /docrep/006/y4809e/y4809e03.htm (1119 words)

	A F R I C A M A L A R I A D A Y 2 0 0 4
		These children will then be engaged at the community, district, regional and urban-centre levels as teachers and advocates for malaria control.
		From Friday 23 April to Sunday 25 April, communities throughout the region will participate in various activities (including children's forums, net distribution and retreatment, medical consultations) designed to raise awareness and spur action against malaria, culminating in official ceremonies on Africa Malaria Day itself with the participation of local, national and international dignitaries.
		The internationally renowned Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour will give a concert in the region on Saturday 24 April, and a motocross competition will be held on Sunday 25 April.
	www.rbm.who.int /amd2004 (229 words)

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