The News Review:
- Lung’aho singles out Senegal for attention
- Spain spy chief quits in cash row
- Brazil: Senegal took control of doomed flight
- Senegal hoop star tries to give back
- Dispute erupts over who controlled Air France Flight 447 at crash
Lung’aho singles out Senegal for attention
Daily Nation
tag –> By CHRIS MUSUMBAPosted Monday July 6 2009 at 22:30 National women volleyball head coach David Lung?aho has singled out Senegal as the team to look out for during the World Championship qualifiers which start at Kasarani on Thursday. Senegal surprised giants Nigeria in Lagos to make it to the Nairobi leg. However Lung?aho is not focussed on the tournament yet as he has the task of dropping two more players. Kenya Prison?s setter Florence Bosire Virginia Njeri and Elizabeth Nafula were axed last week but two more have to go as Lung?aho needs to have only 12 players for the championship. ?I have been informed that we will only be using 12 players.
Spain spy chief quits in cash row
BBC News
‘Without proof’Mr Saiz was appointed in 2004 shortly after Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero first came to office. ver the past few weeks the Spanish newspaper El Mundo has run a series of articles about Mr Saiz. It has quoted staff at the National Intelligence Centre who allege that Mr Saiz went hunting and fishing at least six times in Mali Morocco Senegal and Mexico – all at taxpayers’ expense. The newspaper also published a front-page photograph apparently showing Mr Saiz hauling a large fish on to a boat off Senegal. The paper went on to allege that intelligence agents had doctored one version of the photograph replacing Mr Saiz’s face with that of a colleague. Mr Saiz has twice appeared before parliament to deny the accusations. He said they were "falsehoods without proof".
Brazil: Senegal took control of doomed flight
The Associated Press
The audio has been posted on the air force Web site after a French official said air traffic controllers in Dakar Senegal never officially took control of the flight. Lead French investigator Alain Bouillard made the accusation during the first public report on the June 1 crash in the Atlantic cean that killed 228 people. But the Brazilian air force said Friday that the audio message proves it informed the Senegalese of the Air France flight’s plan and turned over control of the flight. The cause of the crash has not been determined. Searchers are looking for the plane’s black boxes.
Senegal hoop star tries to give back
The Associated Press
Now back home in Africa playing among friends Ndongo Ndiaye is in no hurry to impress anymore. But when a crosscourt pass comes his way time stands still for a moment. The 7-foot-1 Senegalese hoop star snatches the ball from the air and slams it home in one deft motion — just like the old days. Not long ago Ndiaye lived the life of a professional international athlete scoring kudos cash and respect on courts from the U.
Dispute erupts over who controlled Air France Flight 447 at crash
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A dispute has erupted between African and Brazilian officials over who was controlling Air France Flight 447 as it plunged into the Atlantic cean on June 1. French investigators with BEA had determined that control of the flight had never been transferred from Brazil to Dakar Senegal.
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