The News Review:

- JK chief guest at Taifa Stars Senegal match
- Kumba won’t walk away from Senegal dispute – Zim
- Islanders evicted for US base finally win right to return home

JK chief guest at Taifa Stars Senegal match
IPPmedia – May 24, 2007
The Minister for Information Culture and Sports Muhammed Seif Khatib said yesterday the President would be the guest of honour in the Group Seven return leg match set for June 2 at the CCM Kirumba Stadium in the Lake Zone town of Mwanza. Speaking in the Radio ne`s `Kumepambazuka` programme the minister appealed for fans to turn up in big numbers to cheer their team. This will be the second soccer match the President is attending since he was elected in 2005. He attended Taifa Stars` qualifying match against Burkina Faso last year.

Kumba won’t walk away from Senegal dispute – Zim
miningweekly.co.za – May 24, 2007
CE Ras Myburg said on Thursday that a decision was still to be taken as to whether or not the international arbitration route would be followed. The Senegalese government has ordered KI to withdraw from the Faleme deposit where it was exploring for iron ore after it granted steel producer Arcelor Mittal the rights to mine the deposit where KI had hoped to build a mine which would have lifted its yearly production by 12-million tons for at least 20 years. The South African miner argues that it had exercised an option to buy a controlling stake in the project some time ago. The company was also in arbitration with Mittal Steel South Africa on the participation of the company in new capacity expansions at the Sishen complex in the Northern Cape. Myburg said that the company was not taking the issue lightly and that it was in both KI’s and Mittal’s best interest to resolve the matter. The arbitration could be a possible hindrance to the speedy completion of the expansion programme at Sishen. Edited by: Liezel Hill Topics in this article City Company Continent Country Johannesburg Arcelor Mittal Kumba Iron re Africa Senegal rganisation Person Senegalese Government Lazarus Zim Ras Myburg.

Islanders evicted for US base finally win right to return home
Independent – May 24, 2007
“It is a special day for justice because even though we are a small people we have shown big people that we have rights. “An estimated 2000 people were forced to leave their homes on the tiny chain of 65 coral islands in the Indian cean in the 1960s and 1970s. The islands halfway between Africa and Indonesia were first populated by slaves from Madagascar Mozambique and Senegal who were brought there by French colonists in 1776. Under British rule from the early 19th century the islanders lived with their own land and houses speaking a distinctive Creole language in a place they described as “paradise”. But most of the inhabitants were forced to move to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for a huge new US air base on the main island of Diego Garcia after the British Government leased it to the United States in 1966. Seven years ago the islanders won a High Court ruling that their expulsion was unlawful. But in 2004 an order passed by the British Government banned them from returning.