The News Review:

- Alternative Fuel – Is Green the New Black?
- Senegal: Dakar to host regional workshop on environment
- Philippine tanker released by pirates

Alternative Fuel – Is Green the New Black?
Voice of America
The alternative fuel has just gone on sale in the markets of northern Senegal. The new environmentally friendly charcoal is made from vegetable waste mixed with a binding substance such as clay to produce small balls that resemble black charcoal which is traditionally used for heating and cooking. But unlike it’s darker cousin green charcoal is efficiently produced burns cleanly and is made from renewable local materials. This innovative product was developed by the French environmental NG ProNatura International.

Senegal: Dakar to host regional workshop on environment
Le Mali en ligne
The workshop to be held under the auspices Enda-LEAD Afrique an NG is to train “ambassadors” to improve their exchanges with staff of various ministries about the importance of sustainable management of the environment and natural resources for economic and social development and the importance of the integration of links between poverty and the environment. The training workshop comes within the framework of the Poverty-Environment Initiative (IPE) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) entrusted to End a -LEAD Afrique Francophone. The main goal of the training programme is to strengthen the competences of participants in a bid to “improve exchanges with national stakeholders and to convince them of the importance of the sustainable management of the environment and natural resources for economic and social development”. In May 2008 nearly 25 Anglophone ?ambassadors? from Africa and Asia underwent a pilot training programme conducted by LEAD in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
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Philippine tanker released by pirates
United Press International
The MT Stolt Strength with a crew of 23 was captured in November in the Gulf of Aden. The tanker was en route from Senegal to India at the time. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs did not say whether the pirates received a ransom for the vessel CNN reported. About 85 Filipinos remain in the hands of Somali pirates. Three of them who were members of the Belgian-owned vessel Pompeii have been prisoners for about a year. © 2009 United Press International Inc.