The News Review:

- Morocco Senegal sign cooperation agreement on agriculture
- Mrs. Bush highlights Africans’ education
- FRENCH ELECTINS: SEGLENE RYAL vs. NICLAS SARKZY (MaximsNews.com…
- General News of Tuesday 24 April 2007
- EU/AFRICA : EU LAUNCHES 347 MN EUR INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
- Germany sees hard talks with US on climate change at G8 June summit
- Can the $100 Laptop Change the World?

Morocco Senegal sign cooperation agreement on agriculture
People's Daily nline – Apr 24, 2007
In accordance with this agreement the two sides undertook to notably assist one another mutually particularly in the domains of irrigation pastoral and environmental activities with technical support coming from the Return to Agriculture Plan better known as REVA agricultural research and enhancement of the capacity of technical officers. While speaking during this occasion Moroccan Agriculture Minister Mohand Laensar paid tribute to the historical and privileged ties which existed between the two countries. n his part Senegalese Agriculture Minister Farba Senghor indicated that this agreement was concluded within the framework of strengthening the privileged ties between the two brotherly nations.

Mrs. Bush highlights Africans’ education
USA Today – Apr 24, 2007
The program aims to give 550000 scholarships and train more than 900000 teachers by 2010 Mrs. The shortened version of the 30-minute video shown Tuesday at the Academy for Educational Development highlighted the program’s efforts in Senegal Kenya and Zambia. The video was presented in honor of the U. ‘s Educational Scientific and Cultural rganization’s Education for All week. In a visit to Ghana last January the first lady announced a component of the initiative that would provide 15 million textbooks to sub-Saharan Africa.

FRENCH ELECTINS: SEGLENE RYAL vs. NICLAS SARKZY (MaximsNews.com…
MaximsNews Network – Apr 24, 2007
Interestingly enough neither of the two front-runners has put forward any views on foreign policy issues – Iraq Iran the Middle East Africa the Doha round do not much factor in the campaign rhetoric. Many political pundits wonder whether this signals that France may be turning inward. As a result the “world” quickly disappeared from the campaign. Royal’s foray into Quebec where she echoed past politics of Gaullists by calling for a free Quebec and her slips in a press conference on the Palestinian-Israel conflict did not help her image at the time. Surprisingly French voters seemed to be quite at ease in not being “bothered” by the foreign policy complications and agenda.

General News of Tuesday 24 April 2007
Ghana News – Ghana News – Apr 24, 2007
” The US Defense Department said the command will focus more on developing security cooperation and partnerships with African nations rather than establishing a war-fighting capability on the continent. Creation of the new command comes amid stepped up US military activities in the region much of it aimed at denying new havens for militant Islamic groups aligned with Al-Qaeda. Africa “is emerging on the world scene as a strategic player and we need to deal with it as a continent” said Henry who just returned from an April 15-21 trip to Nigeria South Africa Kenya Ethiopia Ghana and Senegal for talks for opening the regional command. Henry cautioned that the headquarters may not be located in one of those six countries since the United States was still in “fact-gathering mode” and said much of the talks during his tour centered on clearing up “a number of misunderstandings. Among them the establishment of AFRICM “did not mean that there would be additional US forces put on the continent” nor did it mean “a dramatic increase in resources to the African continent from the Department of Defense or from the US government. He also denied various allegations about US government’s intent in setting up AFRICM. “AFRICM was not being stood up in response to a Chinese presence on the continent it was not being stood up solely for the effort of enhanced counterterrorism and it was not being stood up in order to secure resources of particular sensitivity to the oil resources.

EU/AFRICA : EU LAUNCHES 347 MN EUR INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
Free with registration – European Report – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 24, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Europe Information Service The Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel as well as representatives from Austria Belgium Spain Italy Luxemburg and the Netherlands and the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Philippe Maystadt on 23 April signed a memorandum of understanding for the creation of a trust fund intended for infrastructures in Africa. The trust fund is a financial instrument under the EU-Africa Partnership one of the pillars of the new EU strategy for Africa approved by the European Council in December 2005. CPYRIGHT 2007 Europe Information Service.

Germany sees hard talks with US on climate change at G8 June summit
earthtimes.org – Apr 24, 2007
7 per cent of gross domestic product to development aid by 2012. African countries needed to improve their governmental structures and to attract more private capital he said. Algeria Egypt Ghana Nigeria Senegal and South Africa have been invited to the conference as have Brazil China India and Mexico. Anti-globalization organizations are predicting that up to 100000 demonstrators will march in the nearby city of Rostock while police estimate the number at half that. Larger organizations like Attac and Greenpeace have committed themselves to peaceful marches while smaller more radical groups have refused to rule out violent protests like that in Genua in 2001. Copyright respective author or news agency.
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Can the $100 Laptop Change the World?
LAPTP Magazine – Apr 24, 2007
Every project I have ever done in my life has been a vector toward this one. The early work of Professor Seymour Papert the creator of the once-popular Logo programming language provides the foundational theories of children learning through computers–what we call constructionism. In 1981 we were using Apple IIs in primary schools in Senegal. LAPTP: How are these laptops expected to help underprivileged kids? What will they learn from having them? NN: They will help in the same ways they aid privileged kids–and then some. Imagine schools without books life without communications even life without TV. Suddenly a child [with a laptop] has access to millions of books. Even more important children can collaborate can make things and can learn by doing.