The News Review:

- Senegal Should Present Reasonable Plan to Prosecute Chad’s Ex…
- Senegal Chief of Staff Here
- Cannibalism on the high seas
- Bush presses campaign against malaria
- Gambia accused of Aids subterfuge

Senegal Should Present Reasonable Plan to Prosecute Chad’s Ex…
BBSNews – Apr 26, 2007
Today in its annual report “Human Rights in the World” the European Parliament invited the European Union “to encourage and assist the government of Senegal in preparing for the prompt and fair trial of Hiss? Habr?in order to answer accusations of mass violations of human rights. “Habr?who lives in Senegal is accused of thousands of political killings systematic torture and waves of “ethnic cleansing” during his rule in Chad from 1982 to 1990. Last July Senegal agreed to an African Union request to prosecute Habr?”Senegal’s decision to prosecute Habr?arks the first time that a developing country has agreed to investigate and prosecute massive crimes committed by a foreign leader” said Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch who works with Habr? victims. “The challenges are considerable.

Senegal Chief of Staff Here
Liberian Daily bserver – Apr 26, 2007
MNRVIA April 26— Senegalese Army Chief of Staff Maj. Abdoulaye Fall says his visit to Liberia is to enhance capacities of his country’s soldiers serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Fall who arrived in Liberia over the weekend made the statement yesterday when he and other soldiers of his delegation paid a courtesy called on Defense Minister Brownie Samukai at the Defense Ministry.

Cannibalism on the high seas
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 26, 2007
This is riveting stuff and Miles does not flinch from delivering the full story. He traces the trajectory of Corréard’s ascent from desperate and betrayed survivor to political activist and finally a tireless campaigner for the abolition of slavery. When Corréard reached Senegal he saw a barbaric slaving depot and not the virgin colony in which he had hoped to make a new life. Miles draws an equally compelling picture of Géricault’s descent into a heart of darkness. He experimented with and rejected a number of events to immortalise on canvas – the episode when the tow ropes either snapped or were cut the scenes of mutiny and the resort to cannibalism – until he decided on the moment when the rescue ship the Argus was first glimpsed on the horizon only to disappear again. Some readers might find the tone Miles adopts hard to stomach: men “hollowed by hunger their skin cracked their lips chapped” drinking blood from their fingers (and these are the lucky ones who made off in the boats and had to trek across the scorched Sahara sands to Saint Louis). But this is a sensational tale that Miles tackles with relish.

Bush presses campaign against malaria
International Herald Tribune – Apr 26, 2007
government in combating malaria in the hardest-hit African nations. Its aim is to slash the disease's mortality rate by half in targeted nations. Angola Tanzania and Uganda were the first three countries in the program followed by Malawi Mozambique Rwanda and Senegal. In December eight countries were added: Benin Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Liberia Madagascar Mali and Zambia. Laura Bush said the initiative was going to provide 500000 bed nets to the most vulnerable households in Zambia – about 10 percent of the country's population. She said she would visit Zambia this summer to see the nets being distributed. The president said the cooperation with Uganda is being expanded to hand out 500000 nets there as well an effort that he said will mean that eventually half of all Ugandan households will have a net.

Gambia accused of Aids subterfuge
guardian.co.uk – Apr 26, 2007
Since January President Yahya Jammeh has been treating people with HIV in the compound of the presidential palace with his herbal rubs and drinks which he claims are a cure. Yesterday Souleymane Mboup from the University of Dakar in Senegal and a leading figure in the IAS alleged that the Gambian authorities had used subterfuge to get blood samples from the president’s patients tested in his lab. The president claimed this year that tests had proved that his remedy worked. That was wrong said Professor Mboup. “The interpretation by the Gambian authorities of the results of HIV antibody and viral-load testing on blood samples sent to my laboratory is incorrect” he said. “The results were obtained under false pretences when a technician approached us asking for training on our equipment because he had problems operating the equipment in his laboratory.