The News Review:
- Senegal leader backs Guinea coup
- 26 arrested in Senegal after deadly riots: police
- Guinea coup leader gets Senegal’s backing
- France to loan Senegal 125 million euros
- Zayed Foundation and Government of Senegal sign agreement
Senegal leader backs Guinea coup
BBC News UK
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
AFP
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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Guinea coup leader gets Senegal’s backing
Reuters South Africa South Africa
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.
France to loan Senegal 125 million euros
AFP
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.
Zayed Foundation and Government of Senegal sign agreement
WAM – Emirates News Agency United Arab Emirates
28th2008(WAM)–The Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Works and the Government of Senegal have signed a cooperative agreement. According to this agreement the Zayed Foundation will execute two charity projects one of which will be a maternity hospital while another will be construction of a number of water wells. The agreement was signed on behalf of the Zayed Foundation by its director general Salim bin baid Al Dhaheri while Senegalese Ambassador to the UAE Cheikh Tediane Sy signed for his Government. Projects are being implemented in line with the directives of President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and HH Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.