The News Review:

- AU names representative to speed Habre trial
- Killing of Chicago Student Unsettles Campus Life
- Ghanaian football fans go ballistic for Premier League football
- British girls guilty of Ghana cocaine smuggling
- Annapolis: Hope or scepticism for Israel-Palestine?

AU names representative to speed Habre trial
Reuters AlertNet – Nov 22, 2007
Robert Dossou Benin’s former foreign minister and justice minister said he had been appointed by AU Commission Chairman Alpha umar Konare to assist Senegal with the long-delayed case. It will be the first time one developing nation has tried someone for rights crimes committed in another. A summit of the Africa Union in Gambia last year mandated Senegal to try Habre on charges of ordering thousands of political killings systematic torture and ethnic cleansing during his 1982-1990 rule. Habre has lived in the West African country since being overthrown in 1990. Asked if he thought the case was progressing too slowly Dossou replied: "That is why the AU has decided to appoint a representative. " Dossou who headed an AU panel of legal experts which advised the AU summit on the Habre case said he would visit the organisation’s headquarters in Addis Ababa shortly for a briefing before travelling to Dakar. Senegal has not yet named an investigating judge in the case… Asked if he thought the case was progressing too slowly Dossou replied: "That is why the AU has decided to appoint a representative. " Dossou who headed an AU panel of legal experts which advised the AU summit on the Habre case said he would visit the organisation’s headquarters in Addis Ababa shortly for a briefing before travelling to Dakar. Senegal has not yet named an investigating judge in the case. Committee Against Torture said on Monday its experts believed Senegal was progressing too slowly and called for a start to criminal proceedings. "Senegal has been asked to prosecute Hissene Habre on behalf of Africa so it is important that Africa gives Senegal the necessary support" Reed Brody lawyer for Human Rights Watch told Reuters.

Killing of Chicago Student Unsettles Campus Life
New York Times – Nov 22, 2007
Cisse a graduate student from Senegal was killed Monday. The student Amadou Cisse 29 was shot to death near his apartment just off campus. The police said he might have been the victim of an attempted robbery. The killing was one of three violent crimes within an hour and a few blocks of one another according to the police and university officials.

Ghanaian football fans go ballistic for Premier League football
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 22, 2007
Manchester United scored first and the place erupted – men exploding from their seats dancing clapping cheering and shouting incomprehensibly in Twi (the local lingo). When Arsenal equalised a different set of supporters made whoopee. Fellow West AfricansIt was clear now that most of the crowd supported Arsenal probably because they had four West Africans in their team (Adebayor from Togo Eboué and Touré from the Ivory Coast and Sagna from Senegal) while Manchester United fielded only one Evra from Senegal. We were perhaps the first white people ever to have entered this place and the locals graciously accepted our presence and our vocal support for one team or the other. Among the Ghanaians there was no bad feeling no hooliganism. Arsenal fans and Manchester fans many of them wearing the shirts of their heroes were sitting close together. Fabregas 4 was happily rubbing shoulders with Ronaldo 7.

British girls guilty of Ghana cocaine smuggling
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 22, 2007
About 300 tons of cocaine with a street value of £30 billion is now trafficked through West Africa to Europe every year according to Interpol estimates. Loaded on to ships in South America consignments are taken to the mid-Atlantic where they are transferred to African-registered vessels. nce shipments reach the coastal waters of countries such as Guinea Bissau Mauritania Senegal Sierra Leone or Ghana small fishing boats meet the deliveries. They convey the drugs to the shore where consignments are loaded on to waiting cars. They are then driven to capital cities where wealthy Colombian dealers have bought beachside villas especially in Guinea Bissau. Drugs are also stored in anonymous warehouses often masquerading as tuna canning plants. Then large loads are put on trucks and driven thousands of miles north to Morocco.

Annapolis: Hope or scepticism for Israel-Palestine?
Ekklesia – Nov 22, 2007
It celebrates this year Annapolis Alive! which consists of a yearlong series of events sparked by the 300th anniversary of the signing of its Royal Charter and the marking of its independence and participatory democracy. However what my manual does not add is that this city will host on 27 November a conference at the US Naval Academy that brings together Israelis and Palestinians along with a number of Arab states as well as the Quartet the G-8 and smaller players such as Norway Turkey and Senegal. Together they will discuss the issues that pertain to the creation of an independent Palestinian state. ne question is to determine the countries that will finally join Israel and the Palestinians round the table of negotiations. For instance it would be important to include high-level Jordanian and Egyptian participation since those are the only two Arab states that have diplomatic relations with Israel. It is equally important to have Saudi Arabia at Annapolis not least because the kingdom chairs the Arab League committee promoting the 2002 Arab peace initiative and its presence is a buy-in for larger Arab support.