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- Senegal clubs end league boycott
- SENEGAL: Marching for street kids
- Gaddafi ends visit to Senegal with “Gaddafi Tower” set to…
- Record 59 oversea players in NBA playoffs
- France’s First Female Presidential Candidate Breaks Taboos
- Child soldiers still fight in Congo: Report
- Car wrecks leading cause of youth deaths

Senegal clubs end league boycott
BBC News – Apr 20, 2007
43 clubs from the first second and third divisions boycotted the league two weeks ago in a row over unpaid subsidies. They also denounced the high cost of stadium rental for their league matches. Some matches were postponed last week because of the boycott and this prompted the Senegal FA to meet with the clubs. ”We have decided to lift the boycott after meeting the authorities to find a solution to the crisis" the spokesman for club managers Mbaye Diouf Dia told BBC Sport on Friday.

SENEGAL: Marching for street kids
Reuters AlertNet – Apr 20, 2007
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Gaddafi ends visit to Senegal with “Gaddafi Tower” set to…
People's Daily nline – Apr 20, 2007
Gaddafi arrived here on Monday after being invited to attend Senegal’s April 4 Independence Day celebrations. n Wednesday The Libyan leader and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade laid the foundation stone of “Gaddafi Tower” a project estimated to cost 125 billion CFA francs (250 million U.

Record 59 oversea players in NBA playoffs
æ°åç’ – Apr 20, 2007
During the regular season 30 NBA clubs featured 85 global players from 37 nations. France Lithuania and Serbia each has five players in the playoffs the most from any nation while Slovenia and South American rivals Brazil and Argentina the 2004 lympic champion each has four players in the playoffs. Four Africans two each from Congo and Senegal are in the playoffs along with five from the Caribbean and China’s Yao Ming of Houston is Asia’s lone NBA representative. The playoffs begin Saturday afternoon starting with Vince Carter going back to Toronto in the opener of the Nets’ series against the Atlantic Division champion Raptors. That’s one of two high-profile returns in the first round the other coming when Don Nelson leads Golden State into Dallas for the start of the Warriors’ first postseason in 13 years. Kobe Bryant and the Lakers get another chance to finish the job against the Suns. The Chicago Bulls try again to knock out the Miami Heat in the first round.

France’s First Female Presidential Candidate Breaks Taboos
dw-world.de – Apr 20, 2007
Political breakthrough as a “woman to watch” Royal’s breakthrough came in the regional elections of 2004 when she wrested control of the Poitou-Charentes region from then Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. After that she was marked by the media as a “woman to watch. ne of eight children of a military officer from Lorraine in northeast France who was born in Senegal. Royal’s former political rival and partner is Socialist leader Francois Hollande with whom she has four children.

Child soldiers still fight in Congo: Report
Toronto Star – Apr 20, 2007
com – News – Child soldiers still fight in Congo: Report Rights group says teen ex-militia are serving in newly combined army brigades April 20 2007 Heidi Vogt Associated Press DAKAR Senegal–Congo’s new government has failed to stop the use of child soldiers – merging forces of former warlords into the regular army without weeding out hundreds of underage fighters an international human rights group said yesterday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said 300 to 500 children some as young as 13 are serving in newly combined army brigades in remote North Kivu province. The group said the figures came from local and international child protection workers. "The head of the army has given the order that child soldiers need to be demobilized and taken out of the ranks but despite the order nothing is happening" said Anneke Van Woudenberg a London-based Congo researcher with Human Rights Watch. In one instance last month the group charged a brigade commander dragged six children out of a vehicle belonging to child protection workers.

Car wrecks leading cause of youth deaths
St. Petersburg Times – Apr 20, 2007
Beijing: A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced Canadian activist Huseyin Celil to life in prison for alleged terrorist links delivering a ruling that could ratchet up political tensions between China and Canada. The official Xinhua News Agency described Celil as a "prominent member of the 'East Turkistan' terrorist organization. "Dakar Senegal: Congo's new government has failed to stop the use of child soldiers – merging forces of former warlords into the regular army without weeding out hundreds of underage fighters New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday. It said 300 to 500 children some as young as 13 are serving in newly combined army brigades. Mogadishu Somalia: Fighting between Ethiopian troops and insurgents left at least 12 people dead in Somalia's capital Thursday while a suicide car bomb exploded at an Ethiopian army base officials and witnesses said. Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle blamed the bombing on al-Qaida elements and said only the bomber died. [Last modified April 20 2007 01:13:35] Share your thoughts on this story.