The News Review:
- Senegal’s sacked former PM ends feud with Wade
- New telephone operator uses CDMA technology in Senegal
- Four women drown and 26 illegal immigrants arrested in Senegal
- World briefs: Europe hoping Russian oil to flow again
- 9 in Senegal to Be Jailed for 8 Years
Senegal’s sacked former PM ends feud with Wade
AFP
“There has been a reconciliation” he said adding that details of his return to the “liberal family” would be worked out with officials of the PDS and his Rewmi party. Seck who challenged Wade in 2007 presidential elections did not explicitly say he would return to the PDS but numerous commentators have said the move is imminent. Senegal is scheduled to hold local and regional elections on March 22. Appointed prime minister in 2002 Seck was sacked in April 2004 and then kicked out of the PDS in August 2005 over alleged corruption in a road project in his native city of Thies of which he was mayor. Seck was placed in preventive custody for seven months before being freed in February 2006 after the charges were partially dropped.
New telephone operator uses CDMA technology in Senegal
African Press Agency Senegal
Sudatel launched “Expresso” on Monday in Dakar. US-invented and “much used” in Asia the CDMA technology is the “right technology” to meet the universal need to call everywhere with a suitable service quality while having access to high speed Internet connection according to the company. CDMA is presented like a transmission coding system based on the spread spectrum technique. It allows several digital links to use simultaneously the same carrier frequency.
Four women drown and 26 illegal immigrants arrested in Senegal
Africasia UK
“n Friday the bodies of three young women washed up on the Camberene beach. n Saturday a fourth body was found on the same beach” police spokesman Daouda Diop in the Western town of Kayar told AFP Monday. Police said the women set out with a group of 30 people from Guero to the south of Dakar on sail boat last Thursday. Among them were the four young women who fell ill and decided to turn back in a smaller boat Diop explained.
World briefs: Europe hoping Russian oil to flow again
Newsday NY
Navy said yesterday. The mission expected to begin operations next week appears more of an attempt to sharpen the military focus against piracy rather than a signal of expanded offensives across one of the world’s most crucial shipping lanes. Nine men have been convicted of homosexual acts in Senegal and sentenced to 8 years in prison their lawyer and a gay rights group said yesterday. Diadji Diouf who heads an organization that provides HIV-prevention services to gay men in Senegal and the others were arrested last month in a raid on Diouf’s apartment. The arrests came just weeks after Senegal hosted an international AIDS conference that included gay lesbian bisexual and transgender participants. Senegal a primarily Muslim nation in West Africa is one of 38 countries on the continent that criminalize homosexual acts. Migrant workers in China were hurrying to get home yesterday before the Lunar New Year festival a holiday that triggers one of the world’s biggest annual migrations of humans.
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9 in Senegal to Be Jailed for 8 Years
New York Times United States
The men were arrested on Dec. 19 at the home of Diadji Diouf a prominent gay activist who works with AIDS organizations to prevent the spread of the disease in the largely clandestine gay community in Senegal according to Jöel Nana a program associate for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Diouf who was among those arrested and sentenced runs an organization that provides condoms and counseling to gay men in Senegal a largely Muslim country that has become increasingly intolerant of homosexuality in recent years despite its reputation for liberalism and openness.