The News Review:
- Mauritanian Refugees Welcome Invitation to Return Cautiously
- Canada willing to send aid to Darfur; troops doubtful
- England – Sanchez closes on Ki-Hyeon and N’Zogbia
- Niang joins German side Wolfsburg
- Sochaux sign defender Drame
- Womad Charlton Park Malmesbury
Mauritanian Refugees Welcome Invitation to Return Cautiously
Voice of America – Jul 31, 2007
-supervised return of the refugees scheduled to begin later this year. The committee visited refugees in Senegal earlier this month to hear their views on returning. But he says there are also other demands. Ba says the government needs to restore jobs land… He has signed an agreement with the U. refugee agency and Senegal to help the refugees return safely and grant them citizenship. The president says his goal is to create conditions for refugees to safely return with dignity.
Canada willing to send aid to Darfur; troops doubtful
Globe and Mail – Jul 31, 2007
The agency believes it’s been able to cut acute malnutrition by half. She also praised Canada’s separate renewal of its school food program. In the past Canada has contributed to similar feeding programs in Ethiopia Mali Senegal and Tanzania among others. Sheeran says the pledge is important to help the UN agency plan for the long-term.
England – Sanchez closes on Ki-Hyeon and N’Zogbia
ESPN – Jul 31, 2007
Sanchez the former Northern Ireland boss who has already snapped up fourUlstermen among his seven new signings this summer was confident of adding CorkCity’s ‘Donovan earlier this week. But now Sunderland have gone in with a £1million offer and the player hasadmitted Black Cats manager Roy Keane is ‘my idol and I would love to play forhim’. Sanchez who quit Northern Ireland to become full-time Fulham boss after afive-match trial at the end of last season has made Senegal striker DiomansyKamara his most expensive recruit at £6million from West Brom. But he still needs wide men to supply the ammunition for Kamara and anothernew arrival up front David Healy. N’Zogbia could be surplus to Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce’s requirements onTyneside while Seol has upset Reading by talking to media in his homeland aboutleaving the club a few weeks before playing for the Royals there in the PeaceCup tournament. Seol was Reading manager Steve Coppell’s top signing last summer at just£1. 5million from Wolves but he faded in the second half of the season after abright start and lost his regular starting place.
Niang joins German side Wolfsburg
BBC News – Jul 31, 2007
The 23-year-old sealed a three-year deal with the Bundesliga club on Monday. Niang who was the top scorer in the South African’s premier league two seasons ago impressed Wolfsburg on the South African club’s recent tour of Germany. He is the third player to leave for the top flight of German football from South African clubs in recent weeks. Arminia Bielefeld have signed South African internationals Rowen Fernandez and Siyabonga Nkosi from Kaizer Chiefs.
Sochaux sign defender Drame
BBC News – Jul 31, 2007
The 22-year-old signed a four-year contract after passing his medical on Tuesday. Drame played 24 times in the French championship and nine times for PSG in the Uefa Cup. He is the fifth signing by Sochaux in the close season after Stephane Dalmat Bojan Jokic Lionel Mathis and Nicolas Maurice-Belay.
Womad Charlton Park Malmesbury
Independent – Jul 31, 2007
The Imagined Village an attempt to open English folk to modern world influences by a collective including Billy Bragg and Eliza Carthy is more promising. A swirling English ceilidh stitched together by electric guitar and Indian drums and angry lyrics about current rural life has righteous fire. As when Arizona’s Calexico usually considered alt. country emphasise their Latin side making North America and southern Europe sound as exotic as Senegal. At Womad boundaries blur. CJ Chenier’s zydeco band is pure down-home bar-band pleasure on the way to Saturday’s headliner Isaac Hayes. It is steadily raining by now with promises of torrents to wash us away and Hayes fails to read the mood with typically slow-building selections.