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Senegal is to receive over 100 students from Haiti, months after a deadly earth quake left over 200, 000 people dead in the Caribbean country in January. The move would allow the Haitians continue their studies in the universities of the West African country.

According to the BBC, officials in the Senegalese capital, Dakar say a chartered flight will leave Senegal on Sunday and return with 160 students next week.

The Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade had earlier this year promised to accommodate Haitians affected by the devastating quake.

On Friday, a spokesman for Senegal's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Mamadou Seye, said the chartered flight would bring the Haitian students to Dakar next Wednesday while Haitian President Rene Preval and his wife would be accompanying the students.

Haiti and Senegal were both colonised by France.