The News Review:

- SENEGAL: Curbing crime through traditional wrestling
- Senegal’s opposition parties team up for local elections
- Old man lives up to ‘angry’ song

SENEGAL: Curbing crime through traditional wrestling
IRINnews.org NY 
He recently opened a shop with his earnings from the sport. ?Attending [wrestling school] has allowed me to adopt a new way of life outside of crime? Diane told IRIN. This is one of the stated objectives of Balla Gaye School one of the training centres for traditional wrestling in the Senegalese capital Dakar. ?The high rate of crime in many neighbourhoods of Dakar is due to the fact that most of the young people have no jobs and they are from poor families so they are easily manipulated and influenced by their peers into crime? Balla Gaye the school?s founder and a former professional wrestler told IRIN.
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Senegal’s opposition parties team up for local elections
Africasia UK 
“A leaders’ conference unanimously decided to take part in the regional municipal and rural elections scheduled for March 22 2009 by forming a large electoral coalition” a statement from the new coalition. The new alliance which is calling itself the Siggil Senegal Front (FSS) brings together about 20 different political groups all of whom boycotted the July and August 2007 legislative polls. They were alleging fraud in the presidential vote a few months earlier that returned President Abdoulaye Wade to office. Wade who was first elected in elections in 2000 was re-elected in February 2007.

Old man lives up to ‘angry’ song
BBC News UK 
The 70-year-old began shooting with a hunting rifle at Lobaly village in the Matam region at the weekend. Police say the gunman warned fans to stop singing “Pa’ Tang Xol” (Angry Old Men) by popular Senegalese artist Baaba Mal before opening fire. Five people were taken to hospital and two were seriously injured say police. Concert-goers had been listening to warm-up music before the live act at the gig on the border with Mauritania 700km (440 miles) from the Senegalese capital Dakar.