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	Tambacounda region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a predominantly Bamana town in Senegal in an area that used to be part of the Mali Empire before the borders were created to separate Mali from Senegal.
		Since Tambacounda was a major train stop it became a djembe "proving ground".
		The region of Belgium consisting of the capital, Brussels and its suburbs.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Tambacounda_region.html (850 words)

	Yellow Fever in Senegal - Update : Travel Health Advisory - Travel Medicine Program - Public Health Agency of Canada
		Touba, Mbacké and Bambey districts in the Diourbel region;
		Gossas, Fatick and Guinguinéo districts in the Fatick region;
		Darou Mousty and Kébémer districts in the Louga region;
	www.phac-aspc.gc.ca /tmp-pmv/2002/yf_senegal_e.html (259 words)

	USAID/Senegal Geography Data Page
		The Region predominates between the 700 and 1500 mm isohyets and is centered on the 900 to 1200 mm isohyets.
		To the east, including much of the Tambacounda Region, human pressure is less intense, and the vegetation formations approximate the climax vegetation (savanna woodlands and dry woodlands) that once blanketed the Sudanian Region.
		This is the region of the semi-evergreen dense forest; its extent has been reduced to a few remnant communities by widespread deforestation for the cultivation of rice, manioc and peanuts.
	edcintl.cr.usgs.gov /senegal2/veg.html (1528 words)

	Senegal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Portuguese Creole is a prominent minority language in Ziguinchor, regional capital of the Casamance, where some residents speak Kriol, primarily spoken in Guinea-Bissau.
		Islam is the predominant religion, practiced by approximately 94 percent of the country's population; the Christian community, at 4 percent of the population, includes Roman Catholics and diverse Protestant denominations.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Senegal (2364 words)

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		The Tambacounda region of southeast Senegal, where Khady is from, has the highest rate in the country, with 1,200 deaths for every 100,000 live births, which is double the national average
		But in the region of Tambacounda, as in most remote African villages, childbirth is done at home and if complications arise women are rarely taken for medical treatment.
		Tambacounda has seen the intermingling of many groups from neighbouring Mali, Guinea, The Gambia and Mauritania and with it the sharing of ethnic and cultural traditions.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=55323&SelectRegion=West_Africa&... (1206 words)

	Senegal
		In the regions of eastern Saint-Louis, Matam, Tambacounda, and Kolda, where the practice was most prevalent, it was estimated that 50 percent of girls undergo FGM, with the estimated rate in Kolda as high as 88 percent.
		In November 2001, in Velingara, Kolda region, a mother of two and an FGM practitioner were arrested for the October excision of the mother's two daughters; trials for the two women were pending at year's end.
		In most of the country, ethnic and regional tensions have not contributed significantly to human rights abuses, and opposition to the Government generally has taken the form of nonviolent political parties that have not had readily identifiable ethnic or regional bases.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18223.htm (8404 words)

	Tostan News - October 20 - 21, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		133 communities representing over 100,000 people from the region of Tambacounda have decided to manifest their support for human rights and girls' and women's health by ending the traditional practices of female genital cutting and early marriages through two major public declarations.
		The events will be held on October 20-21, 2001 in the villages of Tombronkoto (Department of Kedougou, Region of Tambacounda) and Malem Niani (Department of Tambacounda, Region of Tambacounda).
		Tambacounda is one of the poorest and most traditional regions of Senegal.
	www.tostan.org /news-oct21.htm (458 words)

	Tambacounda Region Map: Alahina [14°50'0"N 12°29'0"W] — Youpe Pate \| 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.
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		You are in Tambacounda (Senegal), administrative region of level 1.
	www.maplandia.com /senegal/tambacounda (626 words)

	MD Travel Health - Senegal - vaccinations, malaria, safety, and other medical advice
		An outbreak resulting in 18 cases was reported from Diourbel and Ziguinchor regions in January 2002 (see the World Health Organization).
		A previous cholera outbreak was reported from Dakar in October 2004, resulting in 861 cases and six deaths as of November 10 (see the World Health Organization).
		Six cases of chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne illness characterized by fever and incapacitating joint pains, were reported from the Bordeaux region of France in November 2006 after travel to Senegal (see ProMED-mail; November 18, 2006).
	www.mdtravelhealth.com /destinations/africa/senegal.html (4060 words)

	WHO \| 2002 - Yellow fever in Senegal - Update 6
		- Touba, Mbacké and Bambey districts, Diourbel region
		- Gossas, Fatick and Guinguinéo districts, Fatick region
		The dates of onset of illness for the two most recent confirmed cases were 11 November and 13 November in Thies and Kolda region, respectively.
	www.who.int /csr/don/2002_11_29/en/index.html (270 words)

	psychology-humanrights-l@hrea.org - Tambacounda Declarations to End Female Genital Cutting
		The events of last weekend are even more remarkable in that the region of Tambacounda is one of the most conservative and traditional areas of the country.
		It was in this region that 120 girls were cut in protest (with the same knife) on the morning following the vote to outlaw FGC in Senegal in January 1999.
		Traditional singers and dancers from the various ethnic groups of the region performed for the guests and participants presented short dramas on the dangers of FGC and early marriage.
	www.hrea.org /lists/psychology-humanrights-l/markup/msg00106.html (1352 words)

	United Nations Capital Development Fund
		The project intervention area is the municipality of Kédougou; including all of the districts and Rural Communities (RCs) of the department of Kédougou, and all the RCs of the district of Missirah (department of Tambacounda).
		The population of the project area is estimated at around 125, 000 including the 20, 000 in the city of Kédougou.
		In May 2000, the immediate objective was revised as; to improve sustainable access of the populations in the area to socio-economic infrastructure and to productive natural resources in the department and in the municipality of Kédougou and the district of Missirah.
	www.uncdf.org /english/evaluations/sen96co1_final.php (1958 words)

	GBGM News
		The Senegal Project was born after a five-year drought in the 1970s that spread from the Sahara Desert southward to the western region of Senegal.
		New health centers helped reduce malnutrition in the region from 47 percent to 1.5 percent, and 1075 children received immunizations for the first time.
		The Senegal Project turned the Gambia region around from importing 100 percent of bananas consumed to producing 80 percent of Senegal’s banana crop.
	gbgm-umc.org /textonly/fullarticle_textonly.cfm?articleid=3469 (1468 words)

	United Nations Capital Development Fund
		The project is located in Kédougou Department in the region of Tambacounda, one of the most sparsely populated areas of the country, where the arable land is mostly fallow or is used for subsistence farming.
		The region is handicapped by its isolation and an inadequate transport infrastructure.
		The region has considerable agricultural potential, due to good rainfall, an abundant supply of land and the presence of extension services.
	www.uncdf.org /english/evaluations/sen87co3_final.php (1679 words)

	Middle School in Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CLASS plans to construct 18 new schools and rehabilitate 12 others in three regions of Senegal: Fatick, Kolda, and Tambacounda.
		These regions are marked by high levels of poverty and low rates of girls’ enrollment.
		On March 10, 2004, the first construction project began with the official bricklaying ceremony for a school in Kothiary, a rural community in the Tambacounda region, attended by 400 community members, and other dignitaries.
	www.aed.org /Education/senegaledstory.cfm (323 words)

	Press Releases: Senegal: Cholera - Apr 2005, Cholera in Senegal - update 6
		From 27 June to 3 July 2005, the Ministry of Health, Senegal reported a total of 469 cases and 4 deaths (case fatality rate 0.9%) which represents a slight decrease in number of cases compared to previous weeks.
		The majority of cases have occurred in the regions of Diourbel, Fatick, Dakar and Thies.
		Bakel district in the region of Tambacounda is newly affected, with 5 cases reported during this period.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6E4PJJ?OpenDocument (171 words)

	FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 09/98 - SENEGAL (15 September) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In August, regular rains were recorded in the centre and the north, except in the southern part of St Louis region.
		In the south, (Kolda region), precipitation remained irregular and poorly distributed.
		Following the reduced 1997 cereal harvest due to a long dry spell in July/August 1997, the overall food supply situation was tight during the lean season in the affected areas.
	www.fao.org /giews/english/fs/fs9809/pays/sen9809e.htm (321 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		The event is the latest in a series of declarations to promote human rights and positive social change at the grassroots level, bringing to 1,527 the number of villages in Senegal that have abandoned FGC since 1997.
		But for one of the poorest regions in Senegal where FGC affects approximately 88% of all women, these 160 communities will serve as models of what can be accomplished by putting development in the hands of the people themselves.
		Their initiative to abandon harmful traditional practices comes as a direct result of a basic education program implemented by the NGO Tostan in collaboration with Unicef and the Government of Senegal over the past three years.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2004/12/865764.shtml (726 words)

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		The confirmation of a single case of yellow fever in Tambacounda last month, some 500 km east of the capital Dakar, is officially an epidemic according to World Health Organisaton (WHO) classifications.
		“A fatal case of yellow fever was confirmed on 30 September in the Tambacounda region and we launched a vaccination drive the following Tuesday to immunise all the population living in the surrounding health districts,” Pape Coumba Faye, the Director of Preventive Medicine at the Senegalese Health Ministry told IRIN on Tuesday.
		At the end of August WHO confirmed 10 cases of yellow fever, including five deaths, in the densely forested region of Fouta Djalon, south-eastern Guinea.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=49489 (482 words)

	Sahel Report No 4/98 Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In August, regular rains were registered in the centre and the north (St Louis, Louga and Thiès regions), except in the southern part of St Louis region.
		Heavy rains in Tambacounda region (with record dekadal precipitation recorded during the last dekad of August in Kédougou) caused flooding in some areas.
		In the south (Kolda region), precipitation remained irregular and badly distributed.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/W9832E/w9832e10.htm (230 words)

	The Blacksmith Institute: Breaking News
		A town of 15,000, Gorniak is located on top of an underground lead/zinc/copper mine that was in operation for 60 years until 1995.
		Artisanal Gold Mining Project initiated in Senegal In conjunction with technicians from UNIDO/GMP, Blacksmith has begun project work in the Tambacounda Region of Senegal, to reduce mercury emissions associated with small-scale gold mining.
		The project will culminate with an appropriate technologies training, which will enable miners to retain their livelihoods while protecting themselves and their families from mercury poisoning.
	www.blacksmithinstitute.org /bnews.php (215 words)

	WHO \| 2002 - Yellow fever in Senegal - Update 5
		As of 20 November, the Ministry of Health has confirmed 57 cases and 10 deaths of yellow fever (see previous report).
		The immunization campaigns in Diourbel region have achieved coverage rates of 94-99% (Touba = 99%) and no cases have been confirmed in this region since 24 October.
		The date of onset of illness for the 2 most recent confirmed cases was 11 November and 9 November and these cases were detected in Thies and Dakar region.
	www.who.int /csr/don/2002_11_20/en/index.html (313 words)

	sen009 Senegal determined to eliminate female genital mutilation
		Senegalese officials officially launched the new plan on Friday in the regional capital Tambacounda, an area where the practice is pervasive.
		The first prosecution of FGM performers in Senegal was conducted two years ago in Tambacounda, but have since then been few in number.
		The campaign was opened successfully by the public announcement of some 101 villages in the Tambacounda region, they would abandon the practice.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/sen009_fgm_eliminate.htm (511 words)

	Mectizan.org - MPN22text
		Onchocerciasis is endemic in two regions in the south of Sénégal, Tambacounda and Kolda.
		The third focus is in the northwest (Benshangul-Gumuz, Tigray, and Amhara regions).
		Screening of army soldiers for Wuchereria bancrofti infection in the metropolitan Recife region, Brazil: implications for epidemiological surveillance.
	www.mectizan.org /MPN24textonly.asp (3759 words)

	USAID FrontLines: April 2006 - Spotlight: Mission Spotlight: Senegal
		USAID is also working with the Senegalese government to address governance issues in the southern Casamance region, which—while the country’s most fertile area—is caught up in a 23-year separatist rebellion.
		This scene is common in Senegal’s southeastern Tambacounda region, home to about 530,000 people, most of whom are subsistence farmers and cattle or goat herders.
		Ly is one of 1,000 young girls from three regions to benefit from a scholarship under the Africa Education Initiative (AEI), a U.S. Presidential Initiative.
	www.usaid.gov /press/frontlines/fl_apr06/spotlight.htm (1965 words)

	Hotel Asta Kebe - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tambacounda is the largest city in eastern Senegal.
		Day trips are possible to this region from Tambacounda.
		Above the restaurant is a conference room capable of holding 100 people, which can be reserved for special occasions.
	www.tatom.org /AstaKebe/english.htm (192 words)

	ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH UNITED NATIONS COUNTRY TEAM FOR SENEGAL
		Cissoko’s comments, said that the resources available to the United Nations system Country Team were relatively limited. This had engendered a struggle to decide what should be done. Feeling that more could be accomplished at the field-level, the United Nations Team had forged ahead with an experimental joint programme in Tambacounda.
		Following the presentation of the four panellists, the floor was opened for the discussion. In response to one delegate’s question regarding the financing of the United Nations system’s experimental programme in Tambacounda, Mr.
		Another delegate commented that it had been sad to see Senegal classified as a Least Developed Country (LDC), after having started well after independence. In response to his request for information on the lessons learned from Senegal’s experience, Mr.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/2003/ecosoc6063.doc.htm (467 words)

	Africare 2002 Annual Report - Food Security and Agriculture
		And while the focal crop has been potatoes, the farmer-led, self-help nature of the schools has propelled participants, on their own, to explore other crops and to reach out to neighboring growers in need of similar support.
		Farmers in the drought-prone Gambella region of Ethiopia, with Africare's support, successfully produced fruits and vegetables for the first time, retaining seeds and cuttings for future plantings and using this year's crops to diversify their diets and improve their health.
		In Senegal's Tambacounda region, Africare strengthened two membership federations that now, in turn, provide loans and entrepreneurial training to their members.
	www.africare.org /about/annualreport/2002/food.html (1081 words)

	Balanzan Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The highlight of Saloum region and eastern Senegal
		Arrive late in the afternoon in Tambacounda region.
		The lighting means are oil lamps and the dishes are traditional (women are providing water from the well in order to have a bath.
	www.balanzantours.com /en/14j_senegal.htm (1082 words)

	Job Afrique \| Offre d'emploi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Catholic Relief Services programs in Senegal and The Gambia have been implementing a Sesame Marketing project under its Development Assistance Program (DAP) in partnership with local partners including GADEC, in the Tambacounda Region, 7A and ASSOLUCER in the region of Kolda in Senegal; and with NAWFA in The Gambia.
		The overall goal of the 2002 – 2006 DAP is to improve food security in targeted rural households and vulnerable groups in The Gambia and in the regions of Tambacounda and Kolda in Senegal.
		In Senegal, the areas to be included in the study are the Departments of Kolda and Sedhiou in the Kolda Region, and the Department of Tambacounda in the Tambacounda Region.
	www.jobafrique.com /recherchemploi/imp_offre.asp?ID=44366 (547 words)

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