The News Review:

- Africa: Sables’ Qualifier Fixtures Changed
- Namibia/South Africa: Welwitchias Out to Outdo Class of ’88
- Calls for a food-aid revolution in a post-surplus world
- One Laptop Meets Big Business

Africa: Sables’ Qualifier Fixtures Changed
AllAfrica.com – Jun 5, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);Senegal wrote to the International Rugby Board through the Confederation of African Rugby asking for the favour as the date was "too close to the elections. " Zimbabwe were expected to play Senegal in Harare on July 12 before travelling to Windhoek Namibia for a date against the Zebras on August 2. But now the Sables will first have to play the Zebras away on July 12 before the West Africans travel to Zimbabwe for the game set for August 2. "Senegal asked for their game against Zimbabwe to be changed saying it (the date) was too close to the election so they cannot travel to Zimbabwe during that time.

Namibia/South Africa: Welwitchias Out to Outdo Class of ’88
AllAfrica.com – Jun 5, 2008
Newly appointed Welwitchias coach John Williams could not have asked for a better platform to announce his arrival and Saturday’s International Friendly against the visiting Western Province Rugby Fifteen is just what the good doctor has ordered. Saturday’s match would certainly give the Cape Town born mentor an indication which players to select when Namibia opens her assault in the African World Cup Preliminaries against Senegal in Dakar on the 14th of this month. Namibia is pitted alongside Senegal and Zimbabwe in Pool-A. Both winners from Group-A and B will fight it out for the first qualifying berth for the 2011 World Cup finals in New Zealand whilst the runner up will be thrown another lifeline with a showdown against the lowly placed nations from the European Group for the final qualifying berth. Williams has retained the bulk of the playing personnel that did duty for Namibia in the in the last World Cup Finals in France last year. Right flanker PJ van Lill and right lock Eugene Forbes are the only new faces in the starting lineup as Williams seek to find the right combination ahead of the World Cup Qualifiers. "I know and understand its still early days but I want the team to start jelling as soon as possible and Saturday’s match would certainly give us a clear indication as to where we are now in terms of technical awareness" says Williams.
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Calls for a food-aid revolution in a post-surplus world
New Scientist – New Scientist (subscription) – Jun 5, 2008
With the rest the WFP buys as much as it can from local producers to get money flowing onto farms. “We have more patience than ordinary buyers and more infrastructure which lets us go to the producers not middlemen” said Sheeran. “We buy all our salt from 7000 village producers in Senegal mostly women. We buy from farmers in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo who have no other way of getting their crops to market. Funding local profit And it isn’t only the WFP that’s buying. When famine is a matter of market failure rather than crop failure Sheeran said it makes more sense to give people money to buy food than to give them food that just undercuts local farmers – even in.
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One Laptop Meets Big Business
BusinessWeek – Jun 5, 2008
The future is education. We need to train our students for better jobs and a better future. The desire to educate students for a better future was shared by officials from Rwanda Colombia Afghanistan Senegal and other countries. Although large-scale studies have not been done to show whether the laptops improve learning initial successes in Uruguay and Peru have emboldened others to make the effort. In Peru itself the laptops are gaining momentum. Regional governors have asked the Education Ministry to order a total of more than 500000 additional laptops. “We aren’t so overly optimistic to believe that distributing laptops is going to resolve the social demands of people who have been marginalized and submerged in extreme poverty for decades but we believe it is a great step forward” says Education Minister José Antonio Chang.