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Dakar city: Africities 2012 Dakar

2012/12/03

The Mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall before an audience of media during a press luncheon, held Friday in one of the hotels of the place. "... You already informed that the budget for this Africities is 2 billion 240 million CFA francs. But we can go up to 2 billion 500 million CFA ... ".

For this sixth "Africities 2012," 4,000 delegates are announced in Dakar without counting those who participate without getting up. And it is in this sense that the organizing committee of the summit urged media during the press luncheon to discuss the management of the communication component and active participation of media people.

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