Kaolack / Ziguinchor / Casamance / Dakar / Bakel / Tambacounda / St. Louis / Teidouboune / /
Company
Le Messager / La Tribune / /
Country
Senegal / /
Currency
USD / franc / /
Event
Judicial Event / Voting Result / /
Facility
Nord Police Station / Regional Court / St. Louis Hospital / Detention Center Conditions Prison / /
IndustryTerm
amnesty law / human rights groups / media outlets / strip-search and other interrogation methods / law grants / media assistance / illegal telephone monitoring / maintained law / food / media network / owned daily newspaper / security services / daily newspaper / inadequate transportation / unprofessional and politicized media / law enforcement / media organizations / /
MedicalCondition
lung injuries / /
MedicalTreatment
female genital mutilation / /
NaturalFeature
Senegal River / /
Organization
Constitutional Council / office of the President / Criminal Investigation Department / Law Committee / Bureau of Democracy / High Commission for Peace and Human Rights / Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance / Excessive Force / Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) / army / African Assembly for Human Rights / Ministry of Defense / civil society / United Nations / High Court of Justice / St. Louis Hospital / United States Department of State / National Mine Action Center / National Organization for Human Rights / Security Apparatus Police / National Assembly / Regional Court of Dakar / International Committee of the Red Cross / Senegalese Democratic Party / /
SENEGAL EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Senegal is a moderately decentralized republic dominated by a strong executive branch. In 2007 Abdoulaye Wade was reelected president for a five-year term in an election generally viewed as free