The News Review:

- Senegal to face Cameroon in final
- IAAF president Diack salutes CARIFTA Games
- Inflation low growth worry new W.Africa bank chief

Senegal to face Cameroon in final
Independent nline – Mar 29, 2008
Earlier a distraught Egyptian team were left in tears after being beaten 4-3 by Cameroon in an acrimonious first semifinal. The two winners will meet in Sunday’s final to see who is the African Champions for 2008 but what means more to the two victors is their place in the World Cup in Marseilles in July. Sunday’s final should be a superb show of cut-and-thrust football by two teams who play a similar brand of beach soccer. Both sides are not shy to physically dominate their opponents and both have proved to have a structure that can withstand just about anything that is thrown at them.

IAAF president Diack salutes CARIFTA Games
Jamaica bserver – Mar 29, 2008
“This is one of the goals by the IAAF to get every region to have a meet like the CARIFTA Games” Diack said. “Having this kind of competition every year it only serves as motivation for them (young athletes) to continue” added Diack who was elected IAAF president in November 1999. riginally from Senegal in West Africa Diack is a former long jumper and football coach. Diack said the Caribbean is a leading region with the level of this impressive junior meet. “I think you (the CARIFTA Games) are a far way in front of the others so I am very impressed everytime I come to the CARIFTA Games” said Diack who has also been the president of the National lympic and Sport Committee of Senegal since 1974. Diack’s first CARIFTA Games experience was in 2002 in the Bahamas just a few months before he saw Jamaica host the IAAF World Junior Championship. The CARIFTA Games meet has been an early platform for many of the Caribbean’s world stars including recent lympic gold medallists and IAAF World champions Veronica Campbell and Tonique Williams of the Bahamas.

Inflation low growth worry new W.Africa bank chief
Reuters AlertNet – Mar 29, 2008
Africa bank chief –> By Alistair Thomson DAKAR March 29 (Reuters) – New Governor Philippe-Henri Dacoury-Tabley took the helm of West Africa’s eight-nation central bank on Saturday with a warning that high inflation and low growth threaten the region’s economies. Dacoury-Tabley who was due to be sworn in as governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEA) at a ceremony later on Saturday said in a statement that a board meeting on Friday had expressed concern over fuel and food inflation. was particularly worried by the acceleration in consumer price inflation within the Union notably petroleum products imported foodstuffs and local cereals" he said.