The News Review:

- Savour seafood out of Africa
- Agence de Presse Africaine – Article
- Wafu faction in sponsorship claim
- Stars Nigeria to meet May 27
- The Peninsula n-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
- African Congress elects new Council
- IDB to join Roll Back Malaria

Savour seafood out of Africa
Toronto Star – Apr 29, 2007
Jennifer Bain Senegal-born Amidou Goudiaby has brought his West African food to Toronto. He launched the 40-seat Téranga African Bar Restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day in Kensington Market around the corner from the African art store he has been running for two years. Téranga means hospitality and Goudiaby says Senegal is known for it. He doesn’t take the notion lightly either… He launched the 40-seat Téranga African Bar Restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day in Kensington Market around the corner from the African art store he has been running for two years. Téranga means hospitality and Goudiaby says Senegal is known for it. He doesn’t take the notion lightly either. When I phoned (anonymously) to see whether he was open for lunch Goudiaby wasn’t but quickly offered to race over and cook for just three people. "It’s my passion.

Agence de Presse Africaine – Article
Agence de Presse Africaine – Apr 29, 2007
Tostan’s deputy-manager Malick Diagne said in an interview with APA that “time is needed to solve the difficult issue of beggars (students from coranic schools) because we need to first educate the Senegalese who are too superstitious and believers of the virtues of helping beggars”. The «coranic masters » who force their students (talib?to beg in the streets can earn up to 750 000 francs CFA per month and who in turn do not help to feed cure and clothe the choldren. The great religious families who slammed this form of exploitation expressed satisfaction over Tostan’s actions and readiness to give their backing for “Islam is against child exploitation” the religious officials said. Malick Diagne said Tostan’s approach is a global strategic which consists in urging the government populations and NGs working for children’s rights to unite their efforts in a bid to find a final solution to the problem.

Wafu faction in sponsorship claim
BBC News – Apr 29, 2007
Nigeria Mauritania Mali Benin Ghana and Liberia showed up in Accra while Guinea Niger and Togo appear to have sent representatives to both meetings. Adamu says the regional body has been inactive for the past three years mostly because the Anouma-led executive failed to attract sponsorship. “West Africa is a football zone with such top countries like Ivory Coast Ghana Senegal Togo and Nigeria but for over three years we have been sleeping” Adamu said. “Lack of sponsorship has been the major drawback for Wafu because no government can fund it as it is not a government creation. “I am on a rescue mission. Now is the time to move Wafu forward and this we have already started doing by getting money to run some of the competitions we will soon be organising. “If after a year in office you don’t see a remarkable change in Wafu you can kick me out.

Stars Nigeria to meet May 27
IPPmedia – Apr 28, 2007
Stars will host Senegal on June 2 in a Group Seven qualifying return leg match. The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Information fficer Florian Kaijage said yesterday that Nigerian Football Association (NFA) had already confirmed the friendly. Kaijage said following the NFA decision TFF is now making arrangements with Libya who had also confirmed to play with Stars in a friendly match on the same date to reschedule their match. He said in this case TFF had requested the Libyan Football Association to reschedule the match to a different date.

The Peninsula n-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
Peninsula n-line – Apr 29, 2007
Three other passengers suffering from hypothermia and dehydration were taken to hospital emergency services said. Thousands of African migrants try to reach the Canary Islands each month packed into wooden fishing boats as they flee poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Around one in six dies in the attempt as their boats sink or go adrift in voyages of up to 1500km from the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal. A Spanish hospital ship took 89 migrants and the bodies of two that died to Senegal this week after they stormed a Spanish fishing boat to escape their own stricken craft. With its booming economy proximity to Africa and ties with Latin America Spain attracts 45 per cent of immigrants to the European Union according to Spain’s opposition Popular Party.

African Congress elects new Council
International Association of Athletics… – Apr 28, 2007
The Congress which took place in Dakar the capital of Senegal was attended by 50 of the 53 IAAF Member Federations representing Africa and Congress unanimously supported the resolution of the CAA Council to support Lamine Diack in his quest for re-election as IAAF President at the next Congress in saka Japan. During the first day?s sessions it was agreed that the statutes of the CAA would be amended so that the President of the CAA would now automatically gain a place on the IAAF Council as Area Representative for Africa. The CAA also agreed that 1 of the five vice-Presidents should be a woman. Although there had been a number of candidates for the various positions on the morning of the elections it was announced that in the interests of African Unity all the official positions would be approved in a consensual manner without the need for elections. As a result the following positions were approved:CAA President and IAAF Area Rep: Hamad Kalkaba Malboum (Cameroun)Vice Presidents: Younes Chetali (Tunisia)Vivian Gungaram (Mauritius)Theophile Montcho (Benin)David keyo (Kenya)Violet dogwu-Nwajei (Nigeria)Honorary TreasurerAlhaji Dodou Joof (Gambia)Individual Members:Abderrahmane Belaid (Algeria)Sarifa Abdul Magide Fagilde (Mozambique)Siddiq Ahmed Ibrahim (Sudan)Emmanuel M?Pioh (Congo)Hisseine Ngaro (Chad)Sandy sei-Agyman (Ghana)Giovanna Rousseau (Seychelles)Pascal Sawadogo (Burkina Faso)Athletes? RepresentativeFrank Fredericks (NAM)Presidents of RegionsLeonard Chuene (South Africa) – Southern RegionRichard Damas (Gabon) – Central RegionFatima El Faquir (Morocco) – Northern RegionBisrat Gashaw Tena (Ethiopia) – Eastern RegionMomar Mbaye (Senegal) – Western RegionCAA General SecretaryAbdoul Wahab Barka Ba (Senegal)During the Congress reports were heard from the organisers of upcoming championships including the lympic Games in Beijing as well as Area competitions such as the upcoming African Junior Championships in Burkina Faso and next year?s African Athletics Championships for seniors in Ethiopia.

IDB to join Roll Back Malaria
Triumph – Apr 29, 2007
“We have met here in Geneva with an IDB delegation which expressed their willingness to join the fight against malaria. The plan now is for the IDB to officially become a member of the Partnership" she said in a telephone interview with PANA. Speaking on the celebration of the Africa Malaria Day Seck a former Health Minister of Senegal said that IDB membership of the Roll Bank Malaria Partnership would strengthen international mobilisation against the disease. “The IDB’s wish to join the Partnership is an important step in strengthening international mobilisation against the disease. For the first time we raised enough funds in 2006 to have a real impact on the disease" she added. n April 12 the IDB concluded an agreement in Paris with the International Drug Purchase Facility (UNITAID) for the supply of low cost malaria drugs to Burkina Faso Chad Gambia Guinea-Bissau Mali Mauritania Niger Senegal and Sudan. The agreement signed by IDB president Ahmad Mohamed Ali and the UNITAID board chairman French health minister Philippe Douste-Blazy provides for the disbursement of 20 million U.