The News Review:

- Senegal leads in volleyball qualifiers
- Mauritania election postponed till July 21 after Senegal mediation
- Insecurity Taxes Hurting Senegal Tourism
- African singer criticized by Muslims plays in NYC
- World Court Accepts Senegal’s Pledge to Keep Habre Under House Arrest

Senegal leads in volleyball qualifiers
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He said: “We want to qualify and that’s why we are here and spent so much money to participate in the tournament. We spent two weeks in Italy to prepare the team before coming to Nigeria. Senegal started on a right note by beating Botswana 3-0 in the first match of the tournament which was played on Wednesday. The team will be playing hosts Nigeria in its second game on Friday. Speaking of his expectations he said: “We won our first game and we hope to win the rest in order to qualify. Nigeria has an excellent team but we have a young team and they are motivated to qualify. “The score is not very important; the most important thing is just to win and qualify and be among the two teams that will represent Africa”.

Mauritania election postponed till July 21 after Senegal mediation
Xinhua
The FNDD and the RFD also demanded the vote take place within three to five months after all their preconditions are met. They threatened to boycott the polls if otherwise. The Senegal-brokered accord comes with the backing of the International Contact Group on Mauritania composed of the AU the Arab League the European Union the International rganization of the Francophonie and the United Nations. Mauritania is suspended from the AU and the Economic Community of West African States as part of the international sanctions to force the return of the constitutional order. The military junta announced the June 6 election and the formation of an electoral commission in January in search for an end to the months-old political crisis. Abdel Aziz resigned on April 15 from the presidency of the ruling High Council of State to run for the election. The FNDD and RFD voiced the boycott saying the electoral agenda was unilaterally imposed by the junta.

Insecurity Taxes Hurting Senegal Tourism
Voice of America
Local dancers entertain European tourists at one of the big hotels along Senegal’s southern coast. While the global economic crisis has slowed business there it has been hardest on smaller village-based guest houses farther inland where a simmering rebellion against the government in Dakar has helped give Casamance a bad name. Bakary Denis Sane chairs the organization of small hotel operators in Casamance. In the more than 20 years since the start of the security crisis brought on by the rebellion Sane says many of the small hotels in Casamance have declined.
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African singer criticized by Muslims plays in NYC
The Associated Press
The next year N’Dour and his band filled Carnegie Hall. “When I listened to ‘Egypt’ I was moved because he grew up listening to the (late) Egyptian singer Umm Kulthoum the voice of the Muslim world” said Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi who directed the documentary. “And he wanted to celebrate Islam in Senegal as a peaceful tolerant culture. “At the time in N’Dour’s native West Africa some stores returned copies of the album radio stations refused to play it and sales were poor compared with those of his previous releases. He persisted winning over many of his detractors as an official UNICEF goodwill ambassador who is working to stop malaria in Africa on behalf of the U. -based nonprofit Malaria No More distributing free mosquito nets to families on the continent while entertaining them.
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World Court Accepts Senegal’s Pledge to Keep Habre Under House Arrest
Voice of America
Belgium had asked the court to order Senegal to keep Mr. Habre in custody citing fears he could escape and go into hiding. However the court – formally known as the International Court of Justice – ruled Thursday in The Hague that no such order is necessary. It said Senegal has given assurances it will not allow Mr.