The News Review:

- Macomb woman discusses work in Senegal
- UN Distributing 500000 Computers to Poor Countries
- AXA rewards Belgian arm with Senegal incentive
- Maria De Barros opens a window to Cape Verde
- Senegalese Market Women Get Low-Cost Health Insurance
- EU Plans Cameras to Monitor Fishing Boats’ Catch
- Black African Positive

Macomb woman discusses work in Senegal
Chicago Tribune
- The best way Megan Williams could think todescribe life in Dakar Senegal is “organized chaos. Williams a Macomb native who graduated from Macomb High Schoolin 2001 has been living in the West African country for the pastsix months along with her husband Jonathan Dunnill. She is one ofthree 2001 MHS grads that have spent significant time living inWest Africa during the past year. Williams who does volunteer work for a human rights groupcalled Tostan said assimilating to the way of life in Senegal wasa challenge. “When I first got here I was extremely overwhelmed with tryingto figure out this system” Williams said.

UN Distributing 500000 Computers to Poor Countries
PC World
The terminals are about the size of a deck of cards and have ports for keyboards mice and monitors. The UN plans to provide 500000 workstations also including PCs and laptops by 2012 in an effort to boost technology usage in poor countries Dukker said. The program is being conducted by the UN Department of Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) and the initial deployments will be in Rwanda Senegal and Tanzania. The UN’s goal is to provide wider access to computing resources using low-cost and low-power technologies Dukker said. The UN is partnering with private organizations to provide the equipment with the UN and participating countries contributing to the costs. Ncomputing is donating its X550 virtual desktop kits each of which has five terminals. The terminals will access programs from a host PC running Linux and using Ncomputing’s Vspace virtualization software.

AXA rewards Belgian arm with Senegal incentive
CIT Magazine
Delegates were offered the chance to ride quad-bikes while others tried sand-painting ‘djembe’ drumming and Senegalese games. “We gave them the next day at leisure before the gala dinner which was held at the Bandia Nature Reserve” says Joris. Dozens of local musicians acrobats and performers provided entertainment while a fashion show featured clothes inspired by Senegal’s natural world. The final day saw participants driven back to Dakar where they were transferred to the nearby island of Goree. The visit included an exploration of the island’s role in the slave trade. After a farewell from a gospel troupe participants caught overnight flights home. VERDICT: The programme was named the Most utstanding Travel Incentive at the 2008 SITE Crystal Awards.

Maria De Barros opens a window to Cape Verde
Seattle Times
Growing up in a tight-knit Cape Verdean community in Rhode Island Maria De Barros always felt closely connected to her ancestral homeland. After centuries of famine-induced immigration from the West African archipelago 300 miles off the coast of Senegal Cape Verdean culture thrives in a widely dispersed diaspora and with the release of her acclaimed 2003 album “Nha Mundo” (Narada World) De Barros proudly became the first Cape Verdean-American singer signed by an American record label. But De Barros didn’t realize that the affection was reciprocal until she returned to the birthplace of her parents in 2006 a life-changing experience that inspired her gorgeous new CD “Morabeza” (Sheer Group). Powered by accordion and four-string cavaquinho a ukulele-like instrument with percussive attack De Barros’ Afro-Caribbean-inflected album is a love letter to the land that eagerly claimed her as a long-lost daughter. “I was not born there and to have my people come and make me feel what I have always felt in my heart that I am Cape Verdean was so powerful” says De Barros who performs at the Triple Door on Thursday. ” ‘Morabeza’ means an expression of solidarity in hard times kindness hospitality and friendship and that’s what they showed me the soul and spirit of my people.
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Senegalese Market Women Get Low-Cost Health Insurance
Voice of America
A horse cart loaded with empty bottles rattles down a dirt lane outside Senegal’s capital past a small wooden stand selling fresh vegetables and dried fish. ulimatta Tigerre has been selling beans and bullion cubes from this stand since 1995. ld tires weigh down the twisted metal sheeting that keeps out the rain. Tigerre is an independent businesswoman who lives in a cash economy.
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EU Plans Cameras to Monitor Fishing Boats’ Catch
Wall Street Journal
Another proposal would ban payments to countries such as Mauritania and Senegal to fish in their waters a practice scientists say hurts poor fishermen in those countries. Last year EU fleets sold 6. 4 million tons of fish according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture rganization. The EU’s quotas limit the size of the annual catch that countries and their fleets can sell on their return to harbor. The goal was to reduce catches after increasingly efficient trawlers equipped with sonar began to decimate fish stocks in the 1970s.
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Black African Positive
AllAfrica.com
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