Dakar, Jan 3 (APS) – The daily newspapers received Friday at the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) deal with subjects relating, among other things, to the functioning of Senegalese universities, losses caused by floods in the northern part of the country and the withdrawal announced the circulation of local security assistance agents (ASP).
At Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor ”the students return to the lecture halls on Monday”, indicates Le Soleil. The newspaper notes that ”this is the end of an unfortunate episode which made the UASZ famous towards the end of 2024”.
”The students who, on November 22, declared an indefinite strike to demand, among other things, the completion of the projects on which work had started in 2015 have returned to better feelings. They put an end to their mood swing. (…) The UASZ student coordination therefore calls on all students to join the lecture halls on Monday January 6, 2025,” writes the national daily.
”UASZ students resume classes but reject the single session”, tempers Sud Quotidien. “LStudents from Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor are returning to the lecture halls on January 6 but firmly reject the imposition of a single session. Among other things, on certain points of demands and commitments from state authorities, the students express their satisfaction while saying they are vigilant,” underlines the publication
For its part, the daily newspaper L’AS is interested in the upcoming consultations on higher education by making it known that those involved in higher education are moving towards consultations.
»The announcement was made by the Head of State during his end-of-year address to the Nation. In the meantime, the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) draws the authorities’ attention to several concerns linked, among other things, to the increase in subsidies allocated to establishments, the depoliticization of the university space, the inclusion of training modules ‘entrepreneurship, the revision of the rules of governance in the university”, reports the publication.
-Le Quotidien highlights the election to the Faculty of Medicine of UCAD, announcing that ”Professor Massamba Diouf is withdrawing from the race”. ”Having been on a ballot with Professor Fatou Samba Ndiaye for the position of 1is assessor, the Associate Professor in Health took the chivalrous decision to withdraw his candidacy without even waiting for a decision from his peers,” the newspaper informs.
Source A focuses in today’s publication on the damage linked to floods in the north and north-east of the country. The newspaper reports that the report from the Directorate of Forecasting and Economic Studies notes that due to these floods ”overall losses are estimated at 38 billion CFA francs in the agricultural sector, 856 million in the livestock sector and 1.2 billion in infrastructure.
EnQuête opens a window on the measure to withdraw the circulation of Community Security Agents (ASP) taken by the Public Security Directorate of the national police. “The police withdraw the ASPs made available to them from circulation, the gendarmerie keeps theirs, notes the newspaper which puts on its front page: ”removal of ASP: discrepancy in circulation”.
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