The News Review:

- Senegal says Hamas chief ready to sign Gaza truce
- Immigrant from Senegal tells of being sedated on commercial flight
- Senegal leader backs Guinea coup
- SENEGAL: Fighting nature one drop at a time

Senegal says Hamas chief ready to sign Gaza truce
AFP 
“The Hamas leader said he was ready to sign such a deal in a place chosen by the parties by mutual consent” in a phone call to Senegalese President Abdoullaye Wade late Sunday the ministry said. According to the ministry Wade offered a proposal for an “immediate way out of the crisis. “”It is about getting a definite truce between Hamas and Israel by signing an accord that would oblige Hamas to observe an immediate ceasefire in exchange for an Israeli immediate ceasefire accompanied by a total lifting of the blockade of the Gaza strip” it said. n Saturday Israel unleashed a massive bombardment on Hamas targets in Gaza that has reportedly killed more than 310 Palestinians and wounded more than 1400 others.
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Immigrant from Senegal tells of being sedated on commercial flight
Dallas Morning News TX 
com Amadou Lamine Diouf was in the San Pedro detention center on Terminal Island near Los Angeles when he heard the rumor from other immigrants: Sometimes they drug you to deport you. Diouf from Senegal figured his offense wasn’t anything that warranted sedation: overstaying his student visa. But on the last day of January 2006 a San Pedro guard told him “Bro you are going tomorrow. “The next day he was put on a Paris-bound Air France flight wearing handcuffs. He asked to speak to the pilot to explain that there had been a stay of his deportation but his request was denied. A nurse working for federal immigration authorities told him to move to the back of the plane.

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.

SENEGAL: Fighting nature one drop at a time
IRINnews.org NY 
?People told me that if these pipes released water slowly throughout the day it would be better for my plants. It was like magic? Sarr told IRIN. But Ambassador Gideon Behar with the Israeli embassy in Senegal which funds the materials and training for Sarr?s drip-irrigation system told IRIN the system is based not on magic but on science. ?Miracles do not just happen ? we create them. The idea philosophy intention and operations of drip-irrigation technology are sound. The remaining component to make it work is people. ? He said if the system is properly installed and the farmers clean out the filters to prevent the pipes from clogging the system can save up to 50 percent more water than regular irrigation.