Louga

Girls in Blantyre and Mekelle and Louga, three of these cities, spend so much of their days fetching water and performing other chores for their families that there is literally not time for school.

Susan M. Blaustein: Healing, Storytelling and Girls' Empowerment: Stand Up for Girls and Let them Speak! Susan M. Blaustein 2011

His sister has done better, crossing Europe, the Mediterranean and the Sahara to find winter quarters close to a town called Louga in Senegal, West Africa.

Brian Ruckley · Ospreys: Life and Death Online 2008

Oumar used to send 250,000 CFA francs each month but recently he has only been able to send 100,000 at most for his three wives and 13 children in Louga, his father laments.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

In the northern Senegalese town of Louga most inhabitants depend on money sent from abroad to live but the financial crisis means immigrants in Europe have less money to send.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

In Louga, a town of some 120,000 inhabitants 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the north of the capital Dakar, Marieme lives in the spacious two-story house of her father-in-law, 69-year-old Mamadou Diop.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Ni‚b‚ cropping occurs throughout the whole country, however is more prevalent near Louga.

1. Overview 1991

The northern zone (essentially the This, Diourbel and Louga regions) has 300 to 500 mm annual precipitation (figure F 22).

1. Overview 1991

In the This, Diourbel and Louga regions horses represent the greatest share of work animals, while in the south of the country oxen predominate in the Casamance region.

1. Overview 1991

"Bassin Arachidier". 82 % of the implements sold since 1950 went to the area, comprising the This, Diourbel, Louga and Sine-Saloum regions.

1. Overview 1991

As can be seen in the graph in figure 6-4, the Louga stove would be only a small improvement over an open fire where traditional cookfires are built conservatively, but a great improvement where fires are large.

6. Measuring Stove Performance 1984