The News Review:
- Senegal’s Main Opposition Parties Form Coalition AFP Reports
- Senegal: Curbing Crime Through Traditional Wrestling
- World Bank and GEF Support to Reduce Pressure on Senegal’s Fish Stocks
- FIFA gives Liberia goalkeeper King five-month doping ban
- ASECNA taps Obiang Nguema to mediate with Senegal
- Senegal’s foreign minister leads mission to Mauritania
- Sene steps up for Virginia in rout of Longwood
Senegal’s Main Opposition Parties Form Coalition AFP Reports
Bloomberg
17 (Bloomberg) — Senegal?s main opposition partieshave formed a coalition to contest local elections in MarchAgence France-Presse reported citing a statement by the group. The coalition Siggil Senegal Front is made up of 20political groups that boycotted the 2007 legislative electionsalleging fraud in a presidential vote that returned President. To contact the reporter on this story:.
Senegal: Curbing Crime Through Traditional Wrestling
AllAfrica.com Washington
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. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );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.
World Bank and GEF Support to Reduce Pressure on Senegal’s Fish Stocks
The FINANCIAL Georgia
This support from the GEF is part of the World Bank-GEF partnership program on Fisheries for Sub-Saharan Africa under the International Water Focal area. Virdin emphasized that the project directly reflects the lessons learned from global good practices of Bank-GEF financed operations in Senegal and also innovations from a multitude of non-Bank financed projects and programs such as the fisheries co-management initiatives financed by the Government of Japan and feasibility studies on eco-labelling of fish products financed by the Government of Germany. The significant interest of donors in the sector highlights the importance for Senegal of fishing and associated activities such as processing marketing services and other part-time activities that provide more than 600000 jobs in Senegal (accounting for 17 percent of the labor force and 10 percent of the rural population).
FIFA gives Liberia goalkeeper King five-month doping ban
The Canadian Press Switzerland
FIFA said King tested positive for glucocorticoid after Liberia’s 3-1 loss to Senegal in World Cup qualifier in June. Glucocorticoid is a banned medication that can only be used if a player proves it is for therapeutic reasons. FIFA said the 23-year-old King had not secured an exemption. The governing body of world soccer also noted that it could have banned King for two years but decided to suspend him from all domestic and international matches for five months backdated to Oct. 2 when the player was provisionally banned.
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ASECNA taps Obiang Nguema to mediate with Senegal
Afrique en ligne France
The president of ASECNA’s Board of Directors Jacques Courbin said this in Dakar on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the 111th session of the Agency’s Board of Directors. Included on the agenda of the Council is a review of the 2009 budget and finding solutions to the crisis that has hit ASECNA for the past 15 months namely Senegal’s threat to quit the 49-year-old organisation that has its headquarters in Dakar. Mr Courbin said the Council would see to the smooth-running of the Agency despite its challenges.
Senegal’s foreign minister leads mission to Mauritania
AFP
Gadio met with General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz late Monday in Nouakchott and with deposed president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Tuesday in Lemden 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of the Mauritanian capital where he is being held under house arrest. No details of the mission the first by a senior member of the Senegalese government since the August 6 coup were made known. “President Abdoulaye Wade (of Senegal) who wanted to hear news from his brother (General Ould Abdel Aziz) dispatched me on a mission to get maximum information on the ongoing situation in Mauritania” Gadio said in a statement released Monday. Ould Cheikh Abdallahi the country’s first democratically elected president was overthrown hours after he issued a decree firing the military’s top brass including the coup leader.
Sene steps up for Virginia in rout of Longwood
Lynchburg News and Advance VA
But in Virginia’s 90-61 victory over visiting Longwood Wednesday night Sene gave tantalizing flashes of the talent that has had Cavaliers coach Dave Leitao singing his praises throughout the preseason. The 7-foot freshman was active defensively blocking two shots on the same play and Wednesday he began to look for his shot hitting a nifty turnaround shot from the left block in the second half. He finished with six points five rebounds two blocks and an assist in 16 minutes the most productive outing yet for the Senegal native.