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Dakar

Dakar (English pronunciation: /dɑːˈkɑːr, ˈdækər/;French: [da.kaʁ]) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city in the Old World and on the African mainland. Its position, on the western edge of Africa, is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

According to 31 December 2005 official estimates, the city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2.45 million people.

Dakar is a major administrative center, home to the Senegal National Assembly and the Presidential Palace.

History

Early history

The Cap-Vert peninsula was settled, no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighboring Wolof and Sereer. The original villages: Ouakam, Ngor, Yoff and Hann, still constitute distinctively Lebou neighborhoods of the city today. In 1444, the Portuguese reached the Bay of Dakar, initially as slave-raiders, but were repulsed by the natives on the shores. Peaceful contact was finally opened in 1456 by Diogo Gomes, and the bay was subsequently referred to as the "Angra de Bezeguiche" (after the name of the local ruler). The bay of "Bezeguiche" would serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th century, where large fleets would routinely put in, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cap-Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage. (It was famously during one of these stops, in 1501, where the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci began to construct his "New World" hypothesis about America.)

Red Bull

Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Austrian company Red Bull GmbH, created in 1987. In terms of market share, Red Bull is the highest-selling energy drink in the world, with 5.387 billion cans sold in 2013.

Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first invented and sold in Thailand. He took this idea, modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and, in partnership with Chaleo Yoovidhya, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1987 in Chakkapong, Thailand. In Thai, daeng means red, and krating is the large bovine called "gaur". Red Bull is sold in a tall and slim blue-silver can, while Krating Daeng is in a gold shorter can. The two are different products, produced separately.

The Red Bull company slogan is "Red Bull gives you wings", and the product is marketed through advertising, events (Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Red Bull Air Race, Red Bull Crashed Ice), sports team ownerships (RB Leipzig, FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Brasil, New York Red Bulls, Red Bull Racing, Scuderia Toro Rosso), celebrity endorsements, and music, through its record label Red Bull Records.

Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, races since 2009 have been held in South America. The race is open to amateur and professional entries, amateurs typically making up about eighty percent of the participants.

The race is an off-road endurance event. The terrain that the competitors traverse is much tougher than that used in conventional rallying, and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than modified on-road vehicles. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks, and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day.

History

The race originated in December 1978, a year after Thierry Sabine got lost in the Ténéré desert whilst competing in the Abidjan-Nice rally and decided that the desert would be a good location for a regular rally. 182 vehicles took the start of the inaugural rally in Paris, with 74 surviving the 10,000-kilometre (6,200 mi) trip to the Senegalese capital of Dakar. Cyril Neveu holds the distinction of being the event's first winner, riding a Yamaha motorcycle. The event rapidly grew in popularity, with 216 vehicles taking the start in 1980 and 291 in 1981. Neveu won the event for a second time in 1980, Hubert Auriol taking honours in 1981 for BMW. By this stage, the rally had already begun to attract the participation of famous names from elsewhere in motorsport, such as Henri Pescarolo and Jacky Ickx.

Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band. Most often the track list contains previously released recordings with a high degree of notability. However, to increase the appeal, especially to people who already own the original release, it is common to include remixes and/or alternate takes of popular songs; even new material (previously unreleased). At times a greatest hits compilation is the original release for songs that have themselves been released as a single and charted successfully.

Notable compilations

Madonna's The Immaculate Collection is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a solo artist; all of the songs on it are presented in different versions than the original hit versions. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a group and also one of the ten best selling albums in history. Greatest hits albums are typically produced after an artist has had enough successful songs to fill out an album release. Some artists, such as Mariah Carey, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Aerosmith, Kiss, U2, Dolly Parton, Journey, Los Tigres del Norte, Queen, Kylie Minogue and Billy Joel, have released multiple greatest hits albums through their long careers. Some greatest hits albums are released only at the end of the artist or group's career. For example, My Chemical Romance released a greatest hits album after they disbanded. Other artists, like Eminem have released hits albums in the center of their success. He released Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005 and then Shady XV as a compilation album in 2014.

RADIO STATION	GENRE	LOCATION
WALF 1 DAKAR	News Talk,News,World Africa	Senegal
WALIANE FM DAKAR	Folk,World Europe,World Africa	Senegal
DakarMusique	World Tropical	Senegal
ZikFM	Pop,R&B;,World Africa	Senegal

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Play in Full Screen Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen Ator 2 - L'invincibile Orion

1984, role: actor , character name: Dakkar in Flashback
Play in Full Screen Pierino colpisce ancora

1982, role: actor , character name: Cliente del ristorante
Play in Full Screen Ator l'invincibile

1982, role: actor , character name: High Priest of the Spider
Play in Full Screen Zombi Holocaust

1980, role: actor , character name: Molotto
Play in Full Screen Concorde Affaire '79

1979, role: actor , character name: Fisherman
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1979, role: actor , character name: Lucas
Play in Full Screen Papaya dei Caraibi

1978, role: actor , character name: Ceremony Leader
Play in Full Screen Gli uccisori

1976, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Titanes en el ring

1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen Salomè

1972, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Le tigri di Mompracem

1970, role: actor , character name: Kammamuri
Play in Full Screen Una lunga fila di croci

1969, role: actor , character name: Fargo's Man
Play in Full Screen Fellini - Satyricon

1969, role: actor , character name: Black Slave
Play in Full Screen Colpo grosso a Porto Said

1969, role: actor , character name: Kadil
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1968, role: actor , character name: Black Man at Airport
Play in Full Screen ...4 ...3 ...2 ...1 ...morte

1967, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Delitto a Posillipo

1967, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Mano di velluto

1966, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Un milione di dollari per sette assassini

1966, role: actor , character name: Also
Play in Full Screen Agente 3S3: Passaporto per l'inferno

1965, role: actor , character name: Guttiérez
Play in Full Screen La montagna di luce

1965, role: actor , character name: Sitama's Man #2
Play in Full Screen Sette contro tutti

1965, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Giulietta degli spiriti

1965, role: actor , character name: Black Man on Barge
Play in Full Screen Due mafiosi contro Goldginger

1965, role: actor , character name: Molok
Play in Full Screen I tre sergenti del Bengala

1964, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Sandok, il Maciste della giungla

1964, role: actor , character name: Sect member
Play in Full Screen La rivolta dei sette

1964, role: actor , character name: Jagull
Play in Full Screen I pirati della Malesia

1964, role: actor , character name: Kammamuuri

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Dakar

Fisherman from Dakar
Said he invented Hip-hop.
His skin clutching the wind
Within his thoughts.
It wasn’t Grandmaster Flash
Or Afrika Bambaataa,
It came from their father’s
Father’s father.
Soaking suns and daughters
Until it reached the white man,
Drip, drip, drip then dripped to the
Jap man.
I am the half-man with a nice
Tan, a rock and roll nigger
Straight from the pacific islands.
Go ahead Patty,
Go ahead Patty,
Clap your hands.
Verse 2
Fisherman from Dakar
Said he invented Hip-hop.
It came from the Empire,
Squeezed from its tear drops.
Hip-hop’s in the sea, in the sky
In the night moon.
It came in the ships
With the slaves and the dead flies.
Soaking suns and daughters
Until it dripped to the white man.
Drip, drip, drip then it dripped
To the Jap man.
I am the half-man with a nice
Tan, a rock and roll nigger
Straight from the pacific islands.
Go ahead Patty,
Go ahead Patty,
Clap your hands.
Coro
Clap your hands, baby clap your hands, come on,
Clap your hands, baby clap you motha fuckin,
Clap your hands, baby clap your hands, come on,
Clap your hands, baby clap your motha fuckin,
Bridge
Clap your hands (Clap your hands)
Clap your hands (Clap your hands)
Bridge 2
A sand of Senegal cried out to the sea,
When is hip hop gonna save me?
Chorus
It’s bigger than hip hop,
It’s sweeter than hip hop,

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Africa: Include Older Children in Malaria Prevention Treatment to Cut Transmission - Experts

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[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Dakar -Providing preventive drugs to children up to age 10 during the high malaria season in Senegal more than halved cases in that age group ... ....

Include older children in malaria prevention treatment to cut transmission: experts

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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving malaria prevention drugs to older children, not just to those under five, during the rainy season in sub-Saharan Africa can massively cut cases and transmission of the deadly disease, health experts said on Tuesday ... ....

FEATURE-Senegal waste pickers fight dump closure amid hazards and health risks

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DAKAR, Nov 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the top of a hill in the heart of Senegal's largest rubbish dump, 47-year-old Didou Farai watched as hundreds of workers armed with metal rods picked through piles of waste in search of recyclable materials to sell. ....

Ghana committed to implementing ‘One Health’ initiative - Dr Odame

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Dr Odame, who represented the Minister of Health, Mr Alex Segbefia, at the first-ever Ministerial West African Regional Conference on ‘’One Health’’ in Dakar, Senegal recently, said the meeting offered a platform for countries at risk of zoonotic diseases to build partnerships and sustain regular engagements to make human and animal health security foremost ... “The lessons of Ebola are clear for all of us to see ... Self assessment ... ....

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The metal gates lock behind Fatoumatta Sandeng as she leads the way across a small dirt yard into the concrete structure where her family of 10 sleeps on foam mattresses on the floor ... Solo was a prominent member of the opposition United Democratic Party in Gambia ... “So many Gambians are leaving,” says Gambian Fatou Jagne, regional director of human rights organization Article 19, based in Dakar, Senegal....

Senegal includes the ASDI and T21 model in its Planning (UNECA - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)

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(Source. UNECA - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa). Dakar, 15 - 17 November 2016 (ECA/SRO-WA). - Senegal has, since February 2014, embarked on the implementation of the Plan Senegal Emergent -PSE-2014-2018, the first plan intended to operationalize Vision Senegal 2035. Priority is thus given to the implementation of effective tools for the formulation, analysis, monitoring and evaluation of development policies ... Tel ... Fax....

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The Ebola epidemic that swept through Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone during 2014 and the first half of 2015 was by far the worst outbreak of the disease ever, killing thousands of people ... “Tests would take two or three, sometimes four days to get results back" to hospitals, recalls Matt Scullion of BioFire Defense, a biotechnology firm in Utah ... The U.S ... “Before we had to transport samples to Dakar, Senegal, or Lyon, France ... ....

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The challenges of the Dakar Rally await the Emirati driver, who is also the chairman of Abu Dhabi Racing, after announcing his participation for the 2017 event in South America ... The Emirati rally driver will start his 2017 season off in style when he takes part in the Dakar Rally early next year ... limits for myself at the Dakar," Sheikh Khalid said....

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DAKAR, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving malaria prevention drugs to older children, not just to those under five, during the rainy season in sub-Saharan Africa can massively cut cases and transmission of the deadly disease, health experts said on Tuesday. ....

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DAKAR. Up to a million people around West Africa’s Lake Chad are cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko Haram despite a regional military offensive against the Islamist militants, a United Nations official said on Tuesday ... Yet many areas are impossible to reach amid the insecurity, said Toby Lanzer, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Sahel ... ....

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