The News Review:
- Guinea coup leader gets Senegal’s backing
- Senegal leader backs Guinea coup
- 26 arrested in Senegal after deadly riots: police
- France to loan Senegal 125 million euros
- CHAN draw completed in Ivory Coast
- Ndiss Kaba Badji named Senegal’s 2008 top player
Guinea coup leader gets Senegal’s backing
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Captain Moussa Dadis Camara’s supporters who seized power in the world’s top bauxite exporter after the death of President Lansana Conte earlier this week and have since been acclaimed by Guinean military politicians and the public had previously asked for international support. “I had a telephone conversation with Captain Moussa Dadis Camara who calls me ‘Papa’” Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade said in comments broadcast on Radio France International and reported prominently in Senegalese newspapers. “He is a young man who seemed sincere in what he said” the octogenarian president said. “My feeling is that this group of military men deserves support.
Senegal leader backs Guinea coup
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A meeting between the junta and foreign envoys planned for Saturday has been postponed until next week. The junta which took over in a bloodless coup has said it wishes to “reassure the international community” of its commitment to stamping out corruption and holding elections in 2010. Its seizure of power was condemned internationally but Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has urged the world community to recognise the new leadership. ‘No more looting’Capt Camara addressed hundreds of public representatives including trade unionists politicians and clergy at a meeting in his barracks Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo in what correspondents say was a charm offensive.
26 arrested in Senegal after deadly riots: police
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But Dakar-based rights group the African Assembly for the Defence of Human Rights (Raddho) said “three people died and six were seriously injured. “Diop said security forces were looking for the eight remaining missing guns that protestors took from police. n Friday Senegal’s opposition Socialist Party condemned the violence but urged the government to spread the wealth generated from the area’s gold iron and marble supplies. The government should “take responsibility for Kedougou inhabitants’ aspirations and well-being and their right to benefit from the exploitation of the region’s mineral resources and gold stocks” it said in a statement. Also on Friday Interior Minister Cheikh Tidiane Sy and Defence Minister Becaye Diop visited the region on the border with Mali and Guinea to assess the situation APS news agency said. “Those who were involved (in the rioting) will answer for their actions. It was not a spontaneous act.
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France to loan Senegal 125 million euros
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International Development Minister Alain Joyandet will fly to Dakar on Monday to sign off on the first instalment of the loan designed to ward off an imminent financial crisis ministry spokesman Frederic Desagneaux said. “This loan is meant to help wipe out the Senegalese state’s domestic debt. By paying back private firms it aims to support growth and jobs at a difficult moment in the global economic cycle” he said. The emergency loan comes as Senegal works with the International Monetary Fund to reform government finances and transfer of the entire sum will depend on Dakar continuing to honour its reform commitments.
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CHAN draw completed in Ivory Coast
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The two sides have been drawn in Group A for the finals at a ceremony in the Ivorian capital Abidjan. The other two teams in the group which will be based in Abidjan are Senegal and Tanzania. Group B sees Ghana drawn alongside Zimbabwe Libya and the DR Congo. The group will be based in Bouake which is the Ivory Coast’s second biggest city and was the former stronghold of the New Forces rebels. The CHAN is a new tournament organised by the Confederation of African Football where national teams may field only locally-based players.
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Ndiss Kaba Badji named Senegal’s 2008 top player
African Press Agency Senegal
With 230 points Badji took the lead over the swimmer Malick Fall who secured 105 points and Assane Dame Fall of the canoe kayak (68 points). As a former student in the Dakar International Athletics Centre (CIAD) the finalist at the Beijing lympics returned to the jumping pits in June 2007 after serving a two-year suspension for doping. A charge he had always dismissed arguing he had doped without knowing by his then coach – a Russian national who was employed at the Centre. In football 23-year old Mourchid Iyane Ly was named best local player for the year 2008 with 147 votes.