The News Review:

- Senegal: Debate Rages Over Whether Country Faces Famine
- Sierra Leone/Senegal: Shooting Stars Off for Pay Back
- Africa: Country Reports on Terrorism – Africa Chapter
- … athletes staff raise $1340 to benefit scholarship in…
- Sierra Leone: Why Peer Review (parti)
- ‘Peace and stability’ at risk amid anger in Arab nation and…
- Food crisis seen unlikely to cause famine soon

Senegal: Debate Rages Over Whether Country Faces Famine
AllAfrica.com – Apr 30, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Notably the president made the announcement at a ceremony where he inaugurated a modern farm a pilot project that will be replicated throughout the country to revive the declining agricultural sector. The project is among the many plans the government has launched in the past eight years to boost local agricultural production and ensure food security. So far it has not been able to reach this target despite several promising announcements. In response to the president’s statement and using strong symbols thousands of protesters held a peaceful demonstration in Dakar last Saturday carrying empty rice bags tomato tins and other foodstuffs to show that they were hungry; the items also served as a "red card" symbolising their desire to see Mr Wade go.

Sierra Leone/Senegal: Shooting Stars Off for Pay Back
AllAfrica.com – Apr 30, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );With four new names in the squad John Conteh Ibrahim Koroma aka Marcel Lamin Suma and Michael Kallay Shooting Stars must return the Senegalese away goal advantage and must avoid a defeat. Central defender Marcel told Concord Sports that they are going to make a difference in Senegal. Relevant LinksWest AfricaSenegalSierra LeoneSoccerSportHe stated "we are going with one mind to eliminate the Senegalese. I am confident we will create the difference in Dakar.

Africa: Country Reports on Terrorism – Africa Chapter
AllAfrica.com – Apr 30, 2008
AngolaRelevant LinksConflict Peace and SecurityInternational TerrorismUnited States Canada and AfricaAngola’s borders remained porous and vulnerable to movements of small arms diamonds and other sources of terrorist financing. Angola’s high rate of dollar cash flow makes its financial system an attractive site for money laundering. The Government of Angola’s capacity to detect financial crimes is limited although it did make several high-profile arrests of dollar counterfeiters in 2007. Angola has not signed the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. The government’s limited law enforcement resources were directed towards border control and stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the country which increased exponentially since the 2002 peace treaty ending Angola’s protracted civil war. Lack of infrastructure corruption and insufficient capacity continued to hinder Angola’s border control and law enforcement capabilities… AngolaRelevant LinksConflict Peace and SecurityInternational TerrorismUnited States Canada and AfricaAngola’s borders remained porous and vulnerable to movements of small arms diamonds and other sources of terrorist financing. Angola’s high rate of dollar cash flow makes its financial system an attractive site for money laundering. The Government of Angola’s capacity to detect financial crimes is limited although it did make several high-profile arrests of dollar counterfeiters in 2007. Angola has not signed the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. The government’s limited law enforcement resources were directed towards border control and stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the country which increased exponentially since the 2002 peace treaty ending Angola’s protracted civil war. Lack of infrastructure corruption and insufficient capacity continued to hinder Angola’s border control and law enforcement capabilities.

… athletes staff raise $1340 to benefit scholarship in…
mlive.com – Apr 30, 2008
Gilbertson as well as administrators and staff to raise $1340. The charity basketball game last week as of April 30 at the Ryder Center benefited the Abou Traore Memorial Scholarship set up in honor of student Abou Mamdou Yero Traore of Thies Senegal who drowned in the Rifle River in Arenac County last August while tubing with fellow students and residential life staff. Students sold memory bracelets for $3. The bracelets which say “In memory of Abou” are available in red green and yellow. The game had a special rule: Each time a team committed a foul it had to surrender that player to the “penalty couch. ” A $5 donation was required to get that player back in the game.

Sierra Leone: Why Peer Review (parti)
AllAfrica.com – Apr 30, 2008
The panel members are nominated by the participating countries short listed by a Committee of Ministers appointed by the APR Forum and serve for up to four years (five for the chairman). Each country to be reviewed is assigned to one of the seven eminent persons who consider and review reports and make recommendations to the APR Forum. As of July 2006 the seven ‘eminent persons’ were: Marie Angelique Savane (Senegal) Chairperson; Adebayo Adedeji (Nigeria); Bethuel Kiplagat (Kenya); Graça Machel (Mozambique); Mohammed Babes (Algeria replacing the original Algerian appointee Mourad Medelci); Dorothy Njeuma (Cameroon); and Chris Stals (South Africa). APR Secretariat The Secretariat provides ‘the secretarial technical coordinating and administrative support services for the APRM’. It is ‘supervised directly by the Chairperson of the APR Panel at the policy level and in the day-to-day management and administration by an Executive Officer’. The Secretariat is based in Midrand South Africa not far from the NEPAD secretariat. APR Country Review Team They are appointed by the APR Panel one of whose members heads the team and are ‘constituted only for the period of the country review visit’.

‘Peace and stability’ at risk amid anger in Arab nation and…
USA Today – Apr 30, 2008
Weak or embattled governments in some of the world’s poorest nations could be pushed to the brink of anarchy or beyond by the life-or-death pressures of scarce or expensive food. Already Haiti’s government has been driven from office by violent protests over prices that are 50% to 100% higher than last year. Seven other countries Egypt Cameroon the Ivory Coast Senegal Burkina Faso Indonesia and Madagascar have suffered food riots. Global food prices have risen 73% since 2006 but the increase for certain products has been even more dramatic. Edible oils are up 144%; cereals including wheat and rice are up 129%; dairy products have doubled in price. World Bank President Robert Zoellick says the developing world’s higher food bill will erase the past seven years of progress in reducing poverty. And prices are expected to remain elevated at least through 2009.
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Food crisis seen unlikely to cause famine soon
International Herald Tribune – Apr 30, 2008
Holmes said that group was likely to include the heads of key agencies such as the World Bank International Monetary Fund World Food Programme Food and Agriculture Organisation World Trade Organisation World Health Organisation and International Fund for Agricultural Development. VULNERABLE GROUPS The task force will work to draft a strategy on both short- and long-term responses to food supply strains which economists have linked to factors including high fuel and fertiliser costs the use of crops for biofuels and commodity market speculation. Holmes called on donor governments to provide extra money in response to the crisis that has touched countries from Peru to Indonesia Afghanistan and Senegal and squeezed the World Food Programme's efforts to feed millions of people. Young children who can face life-long health problems from malnourishment as well as pregnant and nursing mothers are among the most vulnerable groups in developing countries where food crises also stand to trigger political unrest. “The challenges here are likely to be of sufficient dimension that we will be asking for additional contributions” Holmes said noting that the U. 's pot of rainy-day cash — known as the Central Emergency Response Fund or CERF — had already disbursed money for various food-related crises.