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- Changing patterns in men’s first marriage among the Sereer in…
- Kenyan women basketball team lose to Angola
- Big day for new boy Faye
- RITES Registers A Record Rs 1.18 Bn Earnings
- UN hosts high-level meeting to hasten Darfur peace deal
- THE GUARDIAN SRTI UGANDA

Changing patterns in men’s first marriage among the Sereer in…
Free with registration – Journal of Comparative Family Studies – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
In these societies where women’s sexual activity is controlled by the elders and by men mainly through the institution of marriage fertility decline is expected if women’s first union is postponed. Hence most studies of marriage and fertility changes in African societies have focused on women leading to a relative lack of data regarding how men’s marital agenda is modified and how these changes affect couples’ marital and reproductive behaviours (Hertrich 2002; Hertrich & Pilon 1997). In Senegal where women increasingly delay their first marriage (Ndiaye et al. 1995) a few studies have been conducted in urban areas (in Dakar) comparing women and men’s marriage agenda based on retrospective data. In this study the notion of “marriage agenda” refers to key events or stages in individuals’ life trajectories that have an impact on the course of their marriage process and thus on the reported date of first marriage: the “social time” for men to initiate this process (defined by their status among their peers and family) and the timing of the finalization of the marriage by different ceremonies. In this urban context women and men’s median age at first marriage has increased respectively from 16… Using qualitative and quantitative data we study men’s marriage process for their first union in order to understand how this determines the onset of couples’ marital and reproductive lives and to identify what the main changes affecting this agenda are. We will focus on the two following aspects. First as in most African societies including Senegal marriage is a long and complex process; it has been widely recognised that age at first marriage is not an adequate way of capturing the changes affecting people’s marriage agenda (Meekers 1992; van de Walle 1968; van de Walle 1993) (1). In other words an increase in age at marriage across birth cohorts does not necessarily mean that men begin their marital life later. Therefore we seek to identify at which stage of the marriage process a couple is considered as legitimate and is allowed to consummate the union. As shown by Lesthaeghe et al. (1989) different socio-cultural characteristics strongly influence marital behaviours particularly religious practices.

Kenyan women basketball team lose to Angola
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation – Sep 22, 2007
The national side coached by Ben luoch failed to recover in the second half and were defeated 62-44 in the tough match. Kenya's top scorers were Carol Majeng with 11 points and Joyce Makungu with 9 points. In other matches defending champions Nigeria beat Cameroon 61-35 baskets Senegal beat Cote d' Ivore 62-37 Mali trounced Tunisia 93-49 and Mozambique beat Madagascar 83-49 baskets. The winner of the continental championship which ends next week will represent the country in next year's lympic games to be held in Beijing China.

Big day for new boy Faye
ChronicleLive – Sep 22, 2007
And he is straining at the leash to run out in front of a full house for the first time. The Senegal international lifted the lid on the unhappy end to his time at the Reebok Stadium which resulted in Faye requesting an exit to Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside in order to put an end to his Trotters hell. Faye – who made his debut in the 1-0 defeat at Pride Park – is hoping to erase memories of the nightmare at Derby by getting off to a winning start at Gallowgate. He told the Chronicle: “I played at Derby but because we lost the game I was very unhappy. “You never want to lose a game as a footballer but that’s life and now we have an important game against West Ham. “It will be my first game here and I cannot wait for it… “I have something to prove here and I want to show I am a good player. “There were three or four clubs who wanted me but I preferred to come here. ”With fellow Senegal star Habib Beye at United as well as players such as Charles N’Zogbia Geremi and David Rozehnal who also speak French like Faye (right) the former Bolton man says he has taken no time to settle in at St James’ Park. He added: “I have settled in here well. “There are some French speakers in the squad like Charles N’Zogbia Habib Beye David Rozehnal and Geremi so it hasn’t been a problem. It is important to have these people around because sometimes I don’t understand the accent up here!“That is very hard but I hope we can communicate with our feet too!”Keep up to date with the news.

RITES Registers A Record Rs 1.18 Bn Earnings
TopNews – Sep 22, 2007
Income from export of locomotives and rolling stock comprising renting was the highest ever at Rs 2. Export to several new countries for the first time consisting Angola Senegal and Mali was undertaken by the company. The company announced total dividend payment for the year including proposed one to Rs 400 million being 1000% of paid-up capital and this is also the maximum ever paid thus far. Rao chairman and the member mechanical Railway Board stated that the company succeeded in ensuring demanding and high-status contracts worth Rs 7.
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UN hosts high-level meeting to hasten Darfur peace deal
NEWS.com.au – Sep 22, 2007
Also on the agenda of the UN meeting was the spillover of the Darfur conflict into neighboring Chad and Central African Republic which both face a serious humanitarian challenge. According to UN estimates more than 200000 people have died and some two million have been displaced in Darfur as a result of the combined effect of war and famine since the conflict erupted more than four years ago. Among those present at Friday’s talks were the foreign ministers of Sudan Congo Egypt Gabon France Ghana Rwanda Saudi Arabia and Senegal as well as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte British minister of state for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. Share this article.
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THE GUARDIAN SRTI UGANDA
Taipei Times – Taipei Times – Sep 22, 2007
Villages are cut off and mud houses and roads have been swept away. But this is a fraction of the devastation caused by some of the heaviest rains in memory to have hit a great swath of Africa across the Sahel and south east to the horn. Eighteen of the poorest and normally driest countries in Africa from Senegal Mauritania Mali and Burkina Faso in the west to Kenya Sudan and Ethiopia in the east have been seriously hit by months of torrential rains which meteorologists forecast will continue in places for many more weeks the UN said on Wednesday. “We believe at least 650000 homes have been destroyed 1. 5 million people affected and nearly 200 people so far have drowned” said Elisabeth Brys at the UN ffice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva. “This is harvest time for many countries and there are already food shortages. The rains linked to ocean temperature changes have caught governments off guard.