International Press Release Submissions

Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Zeya’s Travel to The Gambia and Senegal March 12-14, 2023

Media Note Office of the Spokesperson March 10, 2023 Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya will travel March 12-14, 2023 to Banjul, The Gambia and Dakar, Senegal. In The Gambia, Under Secretary Zeya will meet President Adama Barrow and Minister of Justice Dawda Jallow to discuss bilateral relations between the United States and The Gambia, the upcoming second Summit for Democracy, and The Gambia’s transitional justice process. She will also meet with victims’ and survivors’ groups that are advocating for transitional justice and deliver remarks at the launch of a U.S.-funded $1.1 million project in partnership with the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to improve Gambians’ access to justice, including training; exchanges and sharing of best practices with judges, magistrates, and prosecutors; and community outreach. In Senegal, Under Secretary Zeya will meet with senior Senegalese government officials to discuss regional security as well as global human rights issues, migration, and democracy in West Africa. She will deliver remarks on women and girls’ leadership in building an inclusive digital future at an event hosted by UN Women Senegal and participate in a ceremony to commemorate the groundbreaking of a U.S.-funded, $6.2 million modernization project at the National Police School in Dakar. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za International/. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Zeya’s Travel to The Gambia and Senegal March 12-14, 2023 Submission Details Author: Africa Media from . More Info link: Images: For a high res version of THIS image please contact Facebook: Twitter: …


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Nokia and UNICEF partner to bridge the digital divide in Senegal

Nokia and UNICEF to help bridge the digital divide and provide a dedicated digital education and coding program in select parts of Senegal. The principal beneficiaries are more than 100 teachers, as well as more than 10,000 middle school students in underserved areas. The scope of work includes specific sessions on digital skills, as well as upgrading equipment and connectivity. 18 January 2023 - Espoo, Finland: Nokia has today announced a new collaboration with UNICEF to bridge the digital divide by helping to improve digital education and training in schools in select parts of Senegal, West Africa. This activity is in line with Nokia’s enhanced Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy, as well as Nokia’s commitment to advance digital skills. Nokia is focused on the role its products play in solving some of the world's most pressing challenges, using connectivity and digitalization to restore stalled productivity, provide inclusive access to opportunity and relieve pressure on the environment and natural ecosystems. Nicole Robertson, Vice President, Environmental Social and Governance at Nokia, said: “Nokia plays an important role in bridging the digital divide by providing connectivity to unconnected and underserved communities. Connectivity, when coupled with digital skills, creates greater opportunity for employment, access to education and healthcare and participation in the digital economy. I am therefore delighted to announce Nokia’s partnership with UNICEF to advance digital skills and coding for children and young people in Senegal.” The project with UNICEF Finland and UNICEF Senegal will involve teachers, as well as students in underserved areas in Senegal. The focus will be on digital education and training activities so students can develop their digital skills, including coding. Silvia Danailov, UNICEF Representative in Senegal: “UNICEF works to ensure that no child or young person is left behind in the digital revolution. No matter …


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Special Representative McAuliffe’s Travel to Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal

Media Note Office of the Spokesperson December 6, 2022   Special Representative Dorothy McAuliffe traveled to Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal November 12-19, 2022, to visit health facilities monitored by Parsyl, which provides risk management and cargo insurance for supply chains. In January 2021, the Office of Global Partnerships awarded a 12-month cooperative agreement to Parsyl  as part of the Department’s COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement and Partnership Fund to support COVID-19 cold chain data collection and analytics to help strengthen the vaccine cold chain distribution network at the national, district, and local level to support African countries with their economic recovery. Special Representative McAuliffe participated in roundtable discussions and laboratory site visits in urban and rural areas of both countries to better understand the important uses of Parsyl technology to mitigate risks of vaccine spoilage, both for COVID-19 and other diseases that require vaccination. In Côte d’Ivoire, Special Representative McAuliffe held several high-level meetings with Ivorian public health officials and then followed the route of vaccines and Parsyl’s monitoring of their condition from the national level depot to a “last mile” health facility. Special Representative McAuliffe started at Depot Central Expanded Program of Vaccination (DCPEV), the first location for vaccine storage monitoring prior to distribution along the in-country supply chain, then to Depot District Sanitaire (DDS) Koumassi, a district health facility where vaccines are stored and administered to local facilities, and finally to Centre de Sante Rural de Moosou, a “last mile” health facility where vaccines are administered to community members. While in Côte d’Ivoire, Special Representative McAuliffe met with 11 Ivorian alumnae of the Office of Global Partnerships’ 2021 Women in Science (WiSci) STEAM Camp, which included Moroccan and Ivorian high school girls. In Senegal, she first visited the …


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Institut Pasteur de Dakar launches Grand Challenges Senegal 

Grand Challenges Senegal will be hosted by Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) with financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and the Government of Senegal. DAKAR, SENEGAL – October 26, 2022: The 2023 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting will take place in Dakar, Senegal. Following the announcement of President Macky Sall at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Grand Challenges Senegal curated by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) has today launched its inaugural call for proposals. Epidemic threats are increasing in their frequency, intensity, and severity – yet the world remains woefully exposed and unprepared. Grand Challenges Senegal is soliciting its first round of proposals from innovators working across Africa and African scientists in the diaspora on interventions to enhance epidemic intelligence, surveillance, and outbreak response. Initiatives fostering innovation in this area will be financially supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and the Government of Senegal. Grant applications may be submitted in English, French or Wolof until January 31, 2023, via https://www.grandchallenges.sn Dr Amadou Alpha Sall, CEO of IPD, said: “I am thrilled. This is an amazing opportunity to catalyse initiatives rooted in the reality of the African context that will have the potential to transform how we manage epidemics. We look forward to welcoming the Grand Challenges community in Dakar.” About Grand Challenges initiatives  Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact (see the Grand Challenges fact sheet). About IPD The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) is a Senegalese private foundation in the public interest with the mission to advance public health …


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Institut Pasteur de Dakar to manufacture affordable Measles and Rubella vaccine

Technology transfer of the MR vaccine is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Batavia Biosciences and the Univercells Group DAKAR, SENEGAL – October 24, 2022: Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) has today announced the launch of a new program to advance the development of a measles and rubella vaccine for manufacture in Senegal. The grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will deploy Batavia’s Hip-Vax intensified production process for GMP measles and rubella material and Univercells’ NevoLine™ technology platform to accelerate manufacturing and affordable access to essential and epidemic vaccines in Africa. IPD will produce the vaccine for essential, routine immunization campaigns in low- and middle-income countries and for outbreak and catch-up campaigns. Production will be transferred to the state-of-the-art MADIBA facility, a regional manufacturing hub for COVID-19 and other epidemic vaccines with a capacity to produce 300 million doses for use in Africa. Dr Amadou Alpha Sall, CEO of IPD, said: “By manufacturing affordable measles and rubella vaccines and diagnostics in Africa, the region will be one step closer to a diversified manufacturing landscape for epidemic preparedness and improving the supply chain for essential vaccines for routine immunization. This will help countries in the region build autonomy and reach every child with lifesaving vaccines.” Dr Christopher Yallop, COO of Batavia Biosciences added: “We are privileged to be able to work with Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance this innovative vaccine technology with a key manufacturing partner. Our HIP-Vax manufacturing process technology, developed on the NevoLine™ platform, is designed to deliver vaccines at high yield and very low cost, increasing affordability and availability.” José Castillo, co-founder of Univercells, commented: “We are honoured to partner with Institut Pasteur …


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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry’s Travel to Nigeria and Senegal

Media Note Office of the Spokesperson September 9, 2022 Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-13 and Dakar, Senegal, September 14-15, where he will engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In Senegal, he will also attend the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), where he will discuss the importance of adaptation with African Environment Ministers, including U.S. efforts to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change through the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). For media inquiries, please contact ClimateComms@state.gov. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za International/. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry’s Travel to Nigeria and Senegal Submission Details Author: Africa Media from The Africa Regional Media Hub. More Info link: Images: For a high res version of THIS image please contact The Africa Regional Media Hub Facebook: Twitter: …


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United States Provides $12 Million In Development Assistance In Senegal Amid Global Food Security Crisis

United States Agency for International Development Press Release July 27, 2022 The United States is providing more than $12 million, subject to congressional approval, in new development assistance to Senegal through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As a Feed the Future target country, Senegal will intensify its efforts to directly mitigate the impacts of growing food insecurity, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. A confluence of crises has pushed many Senegalese into hunger. Food and fertilizer prices–already high as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic–have soared even higher due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, putting families at risk. This additional USAID funding in Senegal will be used to support national policies and catalyze private sector businesses to develop local fertilizer alternatives, support smallholder farmers in using fertilizers more efficiently and reach over 270,000 individuals to improve soil-related and conservation practices for improved food security. Feed the Future's intensified efforts in Senegal to mitigate this crisis and alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition in the country are part of Congress’ bipartisan emergency supplemental bill signed by President Biden in May. This includes $2.76 billion in supplemental U.S. government resources to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the escalating global food security crisis exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine and the severe drought in the Horn of Africa region. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za International/. United States Provides $12 Million In Development Assistance In Senegal Amid Global Food Security Crisis Submission Details Author: Africa Media from The Africa Regional Media Hub. More Info link: Images: For a high res version of THIS image please contact The Africa Regional Media Hub Facebook: Twitter: …


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Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with President Macky Sall of Senegal

The White House Statements and Releases June 28, 2022 At the G7 Summit, President Biden met with President Macky Sall of Senegal. Senegal is the current chair of the African Union, and the two presidents discussed the impact of Putin’s war against Ukraine on food security in Africa. President Biden discussed the coming G7 announcement on further efforts to support food security. The two also discussed the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment which includes a new flagship project to invest in a new industrial-scale vaccine manufacturing facility in Senegal which will have the potential to produce hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines annually for COVID-19 and other diseases. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za International/. Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with President Macky Sall of Senegal Submission Details Author: Africa Media from The Africa Media Hub. More Info link: Images: For a high res version of THIS image please contact The Africa Media Hub Facebook: Twitter: …


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Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Senegalese Foreign Minister Tall Sall

June 17, 2022: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Senegalese Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall Sall in Washington, D.C., to reaffirm the United States and Senegal’s commitment to mutual security and prosperity. The Secretary and Foreign Minister discussed the devastating impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on food security in Africa and U.S. leadership to mobilize a global response to the crisis. The Secretary commended Senegal’s own leadership in responding to COVID-19 and commitment to combatting pandemic complacency. The Secretary expressed U.S. interest in deepening cooperation with Senegal on maritime issues and climate change while stressing the need for continued Senegalese leadership to resolve regional security challenges. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za International/. Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Senegalese Foreign Minister Tall Sall Submission Details Author: Africa Media from The Africa Regional Media Hub. More Info link: Images: For a high res version of THIS image please contact The Africa Regional Media Hub Facebook: Twitter: …


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USTDA, FONSIS Partner on Senegal’s Infrastructure

April 22, 2022: The U.S. Trade and Development Agency and Senegal’s sovereign wealth fund, Fonds Souverain d’Investissements Stratégiques S.A. (FONSIS), announced a new partnership to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions to Senegal. The partnership was commemorated through the signing of a memorandum of understanding earlier today in Dakar, Senegal. “USTDA and FONSIS are building upon a strong existing foundation of collaboration and partnership,” said Enoh T. Ebong, USTDA’s Director. “USTDA’s three decades of project preparation expertise in Africa is a perfect complement to FONSIS’s record of mobilizing investment for strategic projects aligned with the Government of Senegal’s medium-and long-term economic and social development plan.” The MOU outlined areas of mutual cooperation in Senegal’s priority infrastructure sectors, including the leveraging of USTDA’s project preparation expertise and FONSIS’s experience investing in Senegalese projects in collaboration with the Government of Senegal. “This MOU with FONSIS will support greater collaboration in several critical sectors, namely clean energy, transportation, information and communications technology, agribusiness, and healthcare – another sign of the breadth and depth of our economic partnership with Senegal,” said U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Senegal Jonathan Fischer. FONSIS’ CEO Papa Demba Diallo, said: “With respect to our ongoing fruitful partnership in the development of a flagship project for Senegal’s energy roadmap, the signing of this MOU appears quite natural as a next step in reinforcing our relationship with USTDA. FONSIS’s strategic role for the economic and social development of Senegal will enable significant areas of collaboration between our organizations. We are convinced that USTDA’s strong track-record in project preparation in sub-Saharan Africa will contribute to a more efficient deployment of our impactful projects.” This MOU advances the U.S. government’s Prosper Africa …


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