{
  "id": 12425700,
  "title": "Cheikh Hamidou Kane, voice of Senegalese history, has died",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/cheikh-hamidou-kane-voice-of-senegalese-history-has-died",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T17:10:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/10/06/cheikh-hamidou-kane-voice-of-senegalese-history-has-died_6758327_15.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A writer, statesman and minister several times over, Cheikh Hamidou Kane was both a major witness to and a participant in Senegal's contemporary history. He died in Dakar on October 3, at 98 years old.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}