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- Senegal’s president dealt local election setback
- Cal’s N’Diaye finally gets her NCAA chance
- Cal Coach Expands Team’s World
- USAID Provides $3.7 million to Assist with Global Food Security in …
- Senegal polls deliver blow to president and son

Senegal’s president dealt local election setback
AFP
Senegalese voters fed up with rising prices and fuel shortages overwhelmingly voted for the opposition in key locations including the capital Dakar. The results published late Friday confirmed the triumphant return of the opposition to Senegalese politics after a two-year boycott of the polls. For Dakar voters the rising food prices and ongoing fuel shortages and power cuts last year were major issues. Those hardships are evident on the streets of the capital where vendors hawking fresh coconuts peeled oranges and fruit juices have trouble getting customers.

Cal’s N’Diaye finally gets her NCAA chance
San Francisco Chronicle
The 6-foot-5 junior missed the first 18 games this season and was rusty when she returned. The week before the Pac-10 tournament she sustained a concussion from a practice collision with Devanei Hampton and missed three days. Her headaches were so bad she had to skip the conference banquet because of the noise. She was able to play eight minutes in Cal’s win over Washington only to sustain a second concussion.
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Cal Coach Expands Team’s World
Hartford Courant
She left what had become a comfortable job to be the head coach at Richmond then moved to Berkeley to put her stamp on Cal’s program. The trip to Africa was an extension of that new outlook; she is interested in starting the long process of adopting a child from one of the orphanages. Mainly Boyle wanted all the players to see what it was like in Dakar Senegal where center Rama N’diaye had come from and for N’diaye’s family to see what her new life was like in. “I thought it was important for this group of kids” Boyle said. “We have a lot of kids from akland inner-city kids and we talk about the blessings and gifts we’ve been given. You haven’t seen poor until you’ve been to Africa.

USAID Provides $3.7 million to Assist with Global Food Security in …
FXBusiness
Agency for International Development’s (USAID) ffice of U. Foreign Disaster Assistance (FDA) is providing more than $3.

Senegal polls deliver blow to president and son
Reuters
Incomplete results from Sunday’s election on local media showed Wade’s ruling SPI coalition lost control of the council in the capital Dakar and other key cities in the West African country such as St Louis and Louga. The elections were widely seen as a referendum on the 82-year-old Wade’s government and widespread expectation that his son Karim will stand when his father’s second and final term ends in 2012. Senegal has long been seen as a rare democracy in the region but Wade’s critics say his rule has been increasingly authoritarian. Meanwhile social pressures have increased due to rising prices and the global economic slowdown. Wade’s son already a presidential adviser and head of a powerful state agency was almost guaranteed his first elected position as a member of Dakar council but without a majority the ruling coalition’s influence will be limited. The partial results indicated the opposition coalition Benno Siggil Senegaal (United to put right Senegal) would win enough seats to be able to name the capital’s mayor. "The Senegalese have rejected the policy pursued until now by the presidential camp" said Benno Siggil Senegaal spokesman Serigne Mbaye Thiam.