The News Review:

- Senegal to introduce electronic passports
- Ship Carrying Illegal Migrants Intercepted in Casamance
- Seven country logjam going into final day of IGFA championship
- Gabriela is No. 1 in AV Comelec canvass
- Museveni wants costs for climate change
- Sudan: US’s Darfur no-fly zone cannot work -French general
- Benfica dismiss Diouf report

Senegal to introduce electronic passports
People's Daily nline – May 23, 2007
“We shall introduce new and high quality electronic passports in Senegal very soon which will enable us to resolve numerous problems related to passports and to issue millions of passports within a very short time” Ngom said while receiving electoral materials for legislative elections slated for June 3. “We are doing our best to meet the challenge posed by passports ” Ngom said adding in the mean time efforts are being made to vet the number of applications received for this traveling at the passport issuance services by Senegalese living in and outside the country. “From now on our consulates abroad would be connected to Senegal by optic fiber in order to issue passports directly to our compatriots in order to streamline the issuance of passports. ” According to the minister this solution is not applicable immediately but will be effected “as soon as possible in less than a year.

Ship Carrying Illegal Migrants Intercepted in Casamance
Voice of America – May 23, 2007
Naomi Schwarz reports from Dakar police say they are investigating what they say may be an organized network smuggling illegal migrants. Police in the north of Senegal's Casamance region intercepted a boat Tuesday off the coast near The Gambia. They reportedly acted on information received from the European Union's new border protection agency. According to police the 90 passengers were Senegalese nationals attempting to get to Spain illegally via the Canary Islands… Most of them were in small traditional wooden fishing boats called pirogues. Police Spokesman Colonel Alioune Ndiaye says this boat was a much larger modern cargo ship. Ndiaye says police are investigating whether this means Senegal is seeing a new phase in the smuggling business. He says until now the Senegalese police have seen only very small organizations of perhaps two or three local fisherman with a pirogue who attempted to ferry passengers to the Canaries. But with this much larger ship staffed by an international crew Colonel Ndiaye says a larger network of brokers and smugglers may have arranged for the ship to make the journey. But he says he cannot confirm the existence of such an organization. Would-be migrants often pay large sums of cash to the boat captains or brokers who help them find a boat going to the Canaries.

Seven country logjam going into final day of IGFA championship
ESPN – May 23, 2007
Ricardo on the YaHoo. The United States is represented with 19 teams. There are over 40 teams representing tournaments in the countries and territories of Angola Australia the Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Costa Rica England Italy Jamaica Kenya Kingdom of Tonga Mexico New Zealand Panama Portugal St. Lucia Senegal Spain Sultanate of man Trinidad & Tobago Turks and Caicos Vanuatu and Venezuela. Anglers on several of the teams are from the countries of Holland Singapore the Canary Islands and Ireland. The IGFA WC has attracted many of the world’s best angling teams who won one of 132 IGFA sanctioned qualifying offshore events held in 40 countries across the globe during 2006. The team with the most points at the end of the four days of competition will receive engraved watches and trophies.

Gabriela is No. 1 in AV Comelec canvass
GMA news.tv – May 23, 2007
n Friday the canvassers tabulated CoCs from Pakistan Afghanistan Germany Russia Kazakhstan Canada Brunei Rome and Milan (Italy) Cuba Chile Brazil Singapore Qatar man Egypt Israel Argentina Sudan Abu Dhabi Jordan Iraq Greece South Africa Lesotho. No vote was cast in Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Panama Monaco Mali Algeria Chad Malta Mauritania Tunisia Cameroon Central African Republic Equatorial Guinea Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Sierra Leone Liberia Togo Senegal and Samoa. Senate's Magic 12In the senatorial race the final tally of votes from overseas Filipinos showed eight candidates from the Genuine pposition three from the administration Team Unity and one independent making it to the winning circle of 12. The Top 12 choices included six re-electionist senators ( Francis Pangilinan Manuel Villar Ralph Recto Panfilo Lacson Edgardo Angara and Joker Arroyo) three outgoing congressmen (Benigno Aquino III Francis Escudero and Alan Peter Cayetano) two first-term politicians (Aquilino Pimentel III and Sonia Roco) and one returning senator (Loren Legarda) to the 14th Congress. verseas Filipino voters gave Legarda 59 151 votes placing her on top of the list followed by Pangilinan with 58 854 and Aquino III with 48 714 votes. The official AV tally showed Villar Jr.

Museveni wants costs for climate change
New Vision – May 23, 2007
The glaciers of Uganda’s Rwenzori mountains of Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro and of Kenya’s eponymous mountain may disappear; only seven of the 18 glaciers recorded on Mt. Kenya in 1900 still remain. At the same time a likely rise in sea levels may threaten the coastal infrastructure of northern Egypt the Gambia the Gulf of Guinea and Senegal. There are two caveats to this gloomy scenario. The first is that some parts of Africa may benefit from climate change. Increased rainfall in highland areas in eastern Africa could for example be beneficial. Second though climate-change models have improved they have been unreliable in Africa.

Sudan: US’s Darfur no-fly zone cannot work -French general
SomaliNet – May 23, 2007
And there would be the question of distinguishing between helicopters” Gen Bentegeat warned of possibly lethal confusion between Sudanese UN and other aircraft. He said there was no alternative to maintaining pressure on Khartoum to let international troops join a 7000-strong African Union force that has so far failed to quell the violence. “Darfur has descended into chaos” said Gen Bentegeat whose postings in the French army included Senegal and Djibouti. “The only viable solution is the deployment of a very large force that would throw a security net around the region. ” Meanwhile US Senator Joe Biden has said that said that he would commit US forces immediately to stop militia in Sudan’s Darfur region as long as there were reports of genocide. Mr Biden a presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday that in his personal opinion nations had at “some point to cede their sovereignty” if they engaged in genocide. Mr Biden a Democrat from Delaware said US President George W.

Benfica dismiss Diouf report
Sportbox – May 23, 2007
The 26-year-old has admitted that he is unhappy at the exit of former Trotters boss Sam Allardyce but Benfica say they have made no move for the unsettled Senegal star. A club spokesman confirmed: “It’s just lies. We are not negotiating anything with Diouf. “We are not in the transfer market yet we are not searching for new signings. “Diouf has been with Bolton since the summer of 2004 having initially joined on a season-long loan from Liverpool and has scored 18 goals in 94 outings for the Trotters.