The News Review:

- Gambia: Senegal Telecom Sectors Set New Ties – As SoS Badjie Visits…
- Senegal: Wade Launches New Programme to Tackle Food Crisis
- Chad: Open Letter to the international and African Communities From…
- Food price rises spark protests hoarding

Gambia: Senegal Telecom Sectors Set New Ties – As SoS Badjie Visits…
AllAfrica.com – Apr 29, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Speaking at a meeting held with the Minister of Transport infrastructure ICT and Telecommunication of Senegal Abib Sey during according to the release SoS Badjie said that as Gambia and Senegal shared a common heritage the kind of welcome they received from their Senegalese counterparts and the favorable outcome of the meetings were not surprising. SoS Badjie extended through Minister Sey a message of goodwill from Alhagi Dr.

Senegal: Wade Launches New Programme to Tackle Food Crisis
AllAfrica.com – Apr 29, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Abdoulaye Wade has urged ministers members of Parliament and senior civil servants to get involved in this programme for its success. Senegal is confronted with inflating food prices worsened by the rain deficit last year. Demonstrations were organised in Dakar last month by consumers associations to denounce the cost of life. Wade’s food programmes wants to get 2 million tones of maize 2 million tones of cassava 500.

Chad: Open Letter to the international and African Communities From…
AllAfrica.com – Apr 29, 2008
We appeal to the African and international communities to encourage Senegal to discharge the mandate it was given by the African Union and to respect the decision issued by the United Nations Committee against Torture almost two years ago calling for the trial of Hissène Habré. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The victims of the Habré dictatorship have been fighting for seventeen years to end the impunity enjoyed by their former president. Many are weak as a result of the torture they endured and many among them die each year without having obtained justice. We write to relay their anguish and their doubts regarding Senegal’s political will to undertake Mr. Habré’s trial in keeping with the AU and UN decisions which Senegal has yet to implement.

Food price rises spark protests hoarding
stuff.co.nz – Apr 29, 2008
* MOZAMBIQUE – At least six people were killed in Mozambique in protests that erupted in February over high fuel prices and living costs. The government agreed to cut the price of diesel fuel for minibus taxis. * SENEGAL – More than 1000 people some carrying empty rice sacks marched through Senegal's capital Dakar on April 26 to protest against rising food prices the latest such demonstration in impoverished West Africa. * SOUTH AFRICA – Thousands of members of South Africa's powerful labour federation marched through Johannesburg in April to protest against higher food and electricity prices. * HAITI – Protests in Haiti over high prices for rice brought down the government. At least six people were killed in two weeks of riots and demonstrations in the poorest country in the Americas. * ARGENTINA – Argentine farmers went on strike for three weeks until early April over tax policies and other government measures including export bans aimed at taming food price inflation.