The News Review:
- Senegal: Entrepreneurs Chosen For Unique Award
- Timeline: Mauritania
- Global rice prices set to fall but food prices will remain high for…
- Zimbabwe: Citizens Make Springbok Squad
- Africa: ‘Missing: 75 Billion for The World?s Poor’ Say…
- Lewis-Palmer alum relishes homecoming
Senegal: Entrepreneurs Chosen For Unique Award
AllAfrica.com – May 22, 2008
-based organization for an ambitious program designed to help them achieve their desired social yields. At a recent ceremony in Dakar the entrepreneurs were officially inducted as “Ashoka Fellows” who will receive a full living stipend and logistical support for three years enabling them to focus on their individual projects. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Ashoka is an international organization based in Arlington Virginia which takes the principles of venture capital and applies them to social improvement.
Timeline: Mauritania
BBC News – May 22, 2008
1981 – Attempted coup; Moroccan involvement is alleged and Mauritania breaks ties with the country. 1984 – Coup brings Colonel Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya to power. 1989 – Race riots erupt in Mauritania and Senegal after a border dispute. Tens of thousands of black Mauritanians are driven out of the country into Senegal. Others become the targets of attacks and land seizures. Hundreds of people are killed. 1992 – Taya elected president.
Global rice prices set to fall but food prices will remain high for…
International Herald Tribune – May 22, 2008
food agency warned Thursday. High oil prices growing demand flawed trade policies panic buying and speculation have sent food prices soaring worldwide trigging protests from Africa to Asia and raising fears that millions more will go hungry and suffer malnutrition. On Thursday tens of thousands of workers in Senegal — from teachers to tax officials fishery and port workers — stayed home as part of a strike staged by unions to protest the spiraling cost of rice fuel and other basic goods. Surging food prices have also sparked riots in Haiti and fed worries about supplies in the Philippines. The Food and Agriculture Organization said it had some good news: The world prices of most agriculture commodities have started to drop.
Zimbabwe: Citizens Make Springbok Squad
AllAfrica.com – May 22, 2008
Also our (forwards) pack is quite decent as well. We can put it together and beat them in their backyard. "Zimbabwe are in Pool A of the Africa Cup with Senegal and Namibia. The top team qualifies for the semi-finals. The winner of the Africa Cup takes Africa’s sole spot other than South Africa at the 2011 IRB World Cup finals in New Zealand. Relevant LinksSouthern AfricaSportZimbabweThe Bulawayo-based Dawson will meanwhile attend the national trials at Harare Sports Club this weekend to pick a side to play Zambia in an international friendly in Kitwe next Saturday. Harare province will field two sides with Matabeleland Midlands and Easterns (combining Manicaland and Mashonaland East) sending a side each.
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Africa: ‘Missing: 75 Billion for The World?s Poor’ Say…
AllAfrica.com – May 22, 2008
Each year of slow progress means billions less in aid for the world’s poorest people: “Broken promises cost lives. If you live in Senegal where one in eight children dies before reaching his or her fifth birthday aid means services and services mean the difference between life and death” said Moussa Faye Chief Executive of ActionAid Senegal. The report says the EU must also roll up its sleeves on the quality of its aid making it accountable and transparent. The EU has committed to make aid work better by making it more predictable better coordinated and aimed at promoting gender equality and women’s’ empowerment but NGOs are concerned that these targets are not being met and that more ambitious commitments are needed. Relevant LinksAid and AssistanceCapital FlowsEurope and AfricaNGOs and Civil SocietySustainable Development2008 is a crucial year for aid testing the credibility of European governments. At the High Level Ministerial Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra Ghana this coming September the EU will review its progress against crucial commitments made in 2005 in Paris.
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Lewis-Palmer alum relishes homecoming
Denver Post – May 22, 2008
“These guys for the last four years have been loyal to me. ” Coundoul will play Saturday against Chivas USA before joining the Lions of Teranga for a month. Senegal is looking to rebound from a disappointing campaign in the African Nations Cup this past winter. Fernando Clavijo said he isn’t sure whether he’ll restore the three-man defensive shape against Chivas USA. The Rapids coach said he is wary of giving the visitors too much space at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. “We have to be very careful but we have to be aggressive at the same time” Clavijo said.