The News Review:

- Electoral fficials Distributing Ballots for Guinea Bissau Vote
- Portugal’s national airline increases flights to Angola Cape …
- Return to Senegal
- African Leaders Call for Mauritania Election Transparency

Electoral fficials Distributing Ballots for Guinea Bissau Vote
Voice of America
Eleven candidates are running to succeed long-time President Joao Bernardo Vieira who was killed in March. Campaign workers load boxes of paper ballots onto a truck for transport to polling stations near the border with Senegal. Each shipment contains a white cardboard stand to give voters privacy and a clear plastic ballot box with numbered plastic ties to seal it once polls close. It is the earliest that voting materials have been distributed in Guinea Bissau. National Electoral Commission President Desejado Lima Da Costa says it is one of several changes meant to ensure a free and fair vote. Da Costa says fraud usually occurs when voting materials arrive at polling stations late.

Portugal’s national airline increases flights to Angola Cape …
Macauhub
In the statement TAP said that as part of the boost to flights between Portugal and Africa it will offer three additional flights per week to Luanda. Between Lisbon and Praia the airline is also operating three additional weekly flights now increasing the service to one flight per day. ?This operation of a daily flight began on 8 June and is due to last until 12 September? TAP said in its statement. Between 23 July and 3 September the airline will operate to extra flights per week to Dakar.
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Return to Senegal
The Times
Senegal is a country of beauty and diversity boasting a stunning array of sights sounds and flavours. It is bounded by the Atlantic cean to the west Mauritania to the north Mali to the east and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south. The Senegalese are very proud of their reputation for teranga meaning hospitality and locals are extremely friendly and helpful to visitors. Most of those who head to Senegal do so for the country’s beaches and for good reason. North and south of the capital lie wide strips of white sand which invite swimming and sunbathing.

African Leaders Call for Mauritania Election Transparency
Voice of America
C01 June 2009 Several African heads of state who held for a regional meeting in Libya over the weekend have called for transparency in Mauritania’s upcoming election despite opposition protests. The African leaders urged opposition political parties as well as the leader of last year’s coup d’état to ensure that this week’s general election is free and fair. With Senegal acting as mediator the opposition demanded the election be postponed claiming it is a sham aimed at legitimizing the recent coup. The Director of Governance at United Nations Economic Commission For Africa Professor key nyejekwe told VA that recent elections across Africa have been flashpoints of chaos. “I’m glad that the heads of state are insisting on a transparent and a credible election” nyejekwe he said. He said there are indications that the calls by the African heads of state might not be heeded by the political players in Mauritania. “My fear is that maybe their intervention has come rather late in the process given the fact that it is not just what happens on the day of the elections that determines the credibility of the election.