The News Review:

- Country profile: Senegal
- Guinea Bissau: How to Avoid a Food Crisis Again This Year
- The dog that turned green
- Capital of independent Gambia from 1965; name changed to Banjul in…
- Daily Times – Site Edition

Country profile: Senegal
BBC News – Feb 29, 2008
It has an established multi-party system and a tradition of civilian rule. Although poverty is widespread and unemployment is high the country has one of the region’s more stable economies. For the Senegalese political participation and peaceful leadership changes are not new. Even as a colony Senegal had representatives in the French parliament.

Guinea Bissau: How to Avoid a Food Crisis Again This Year
AllAfrica.com – Feb 29, 2008
ne is to improve exports by lowering taxes. (Governments in many other cashew-producing countries do not impose such taxes on exporters). Another is to allow transporters to export overland to Senegal rather than require them to pass through the port of Bissau which is slow and expensive. "The port here doesn’t really function" Carlos Schwarz Silva who heads the food security non-governmental organisation Acção para Desenvolvimento told IRIN. "And I am not aware of anything being done to fix it. "ther measures he and other experts call for include an end to the many illegal taxes at road blocks which local authorities demand of trucks transporting cashews and rice as well as a reorganisation of the export market. "Currently there are too many middlemen each taking a profit and that reduces farmers’ earnings" Silva said.

The dog that turned green
New Statesman – Feb 29, 2008
But it is not that simple. In truth there are many carbon trade initiatives that deliver solid and tangible benefits to communities and ecovillages have great potential to be vehicles for just such transactions. Ecovillages in Senegal for example are being funded to replant their mangrove forests and to introduce solar cookers. Now as it happens this work is not being funded through carbon trading but it perfectly easily could be. We could easily set up a mechanism whereby for example participants at the Positive Energy conference (www.
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Capital of independent Gambia from 1965; name changed to Banjul in…
BBC News – Feb 29, 2008
Days later a critic of the law prominent editor Deyda Hydara is shot dead. 2005 March – Ministers and civil servants are sacked and more than 30 senior officials are arrested over corruption allegations. 2005 ctober – Dispute with neighbouring Senegal over ferry tariffs on the border leads to a transport blockade. The economies of both countries suffer. Nigerian President lusegun basanjo brokers talks to resolve the issue. 2006 March – Government says a planned military coup has been foiled. 2006 July – Head of the independent electoral commission Ndondi Njai is sacked.
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Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Feb 29, 2008
He also told the families of the “martyrs” of the war that their loss was not in vain as the message of the Islamic revolution of 1979 that ousted the pro-US shah was spreading all over the world. Khamenei: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meanwhile said Muslim countries did not need the approval of the United States to record great achievements. “Some Islamic countries think that if the United States does not agree they cannot be successful” Khamenei was quoted telling visiting Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade late Wednesday according to the Fars news agency. “This opinion is a lie and wrong. If nations decide without the approval of superpowers they can do great work” Khamenei added. “The US superpower language is a language of making threats and creating fear. If Islamic countries become united this language of fear will have no effect” Khamenei said.