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Senegal Crackdown Fails To Improve Lot of Child Beggars

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Dawn has barely broken as three of Senegal’s estimated 50,000 child beggars dart through the capital’s streets, hoping for a bag of sugar or a few coins to hand over to their teachers. Senegal’s “talibes” — children as young as four sent to Islamic boarding schools by their parents, then forced to earn their keep … Read more

Activists Criticise Senegal’s Slow Progress On Child Begging

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Human rights groups in Senegal on Tuesday criticised what it said is an ineffectual crackdown on child begging driven by Koranic schools, saying a year-long push to remove 50,000 children from the streets is failing. In July 2016 the government began rounding up children as young as four who are forced to beg by their … Read more