Senegal offers land to Haitians that want to come

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Senegal offers land to Haitians that want to come

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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Associated Press Writer

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to 'return to their origins' following this week's devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.

Senegal's octogenarian President Abdoulaye Wade told a meeting of his advisers that Haitians are the sons and daughters of Africa, because the country was founded by slaves, including some believed to have come from Senegal.

"The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin," said Wade's spokesman Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye late Saturday following the president's announcement.

"Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land - even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come. If it's just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region," he said.

He stressed that Wade had insisted that if a region is handed over it should be in a fertile area - not in the country's parched deserts.

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Senegal offers land to Haiti quake victims

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade offered to allot fertile land to victims of Haiti's earthquake.

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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade urged African nations on Monday to offer an allotment of land for resettlement to victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti.

"Africa should offer Haitians the chance to return home. It is their right. There is nothing to haggle about," President Abdoulaye Wade said on his website.

In his proposal to the 53-nation African Union published in local newspapers on Monday, Wade asked that Haitians be granted "their own state on African territory, the land of their ancestors."


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