The News Review:

- Senegal hoop star tries to give back
- Gambia: Gambia-Senegal Launch Sustainable Fisheries Programme
- Gaddafi walks out of summit
- Niger situation ‘dangerous’
- Bordeaux defender Diawara poised to join Marseille
- HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
- Victims of Former Chadian Dictator Seek Justice from African Union

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.

Gambia: Gambia-Senegal Launch Sustainable Fisheries Programme
AllAfrica.com
The objective of the workshop is to identify priority artisanal fisheries issues and opportunities for the “BaNafaa” project and to develop a common vision of what the “BaNafaa” project should achieve over the next 5 years. In Senegal the project is called “Wula Nafaa”. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Speaking at the opening ceremony on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries Water Resources and National Assembly Matters Mr. Amadou Saine Deputy Permanent Secretary said the fisheries sector plays an important role in producing cheap animal proteins employment and foreign exchange earnings in our sub-region particularly in the two countries that are to benefit from implementation of the programme.
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Gaddafi walks out of summit
News24
“The mood was tense but still polite” he added. The African Union has already agreed to move toward greater integration but countries like oil-rich Nigeria and much of eastern and southern Africa favour a gradual approach while Gaddafi wants the summit to grant a new African Authority sweeping powers over defence trade and foreign relations. Senegal and many French-speaking African countries support Libya’s position part of Gaddafi?s larger drive to create a “United States of Africa. – SAPA Read more on: gaddafi frustrated | sirte | african union summit.

Niger situation ‘dangerous’
News24
“The situation is dangerous in Niger” Bernard Kouchner said on Wednesday after arriving in Senegal. Kouchner pointed to “several demands of the president which weren’t satisfied the reaction by the opposition the dissolution which was announced and the desire of the president to stand for office again despite only two terms being allowed according to the constitution. President Mamadou Tandja disolved the constitutional court and parliament which opposed his plan to hold a referendum on allowing him to stand for a third term as president. Tandja a 71-year-old retired army colonel whose legal term limit ends in December has also claimed emergency powers which he said were necessary to protect the independence of the arid and landlocked west African nation. “France asserts as others in Africa that it is necessary to respect and return to the constitutional order” said Kouchner.

Bordeaux defender Diawara poised to join Marseille
guardian.co.uk
“There is an agreement in principle but the move is stillpending medical tests. The player will then sign for fouryears” Marseille said on their website (www.

HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
Inter Press Service
DAKAR Jun 30 (IPS) – In Senegal’s southern region 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda a town 425 km from the capital Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula. bstetric fistula occurs when extended pressure damages the soft tissue in a woman's pelvis during the process of giving birth. The tissue eventually dies from the lack of blood supply and a hole develops between either the rectum and vagina or between the bladder and vagina causing a woman to lose control of the flow of urine and sometimes faeces. Dr Charles Antoine Diatta president of the Medical Commission of Kolda’s regional hospital says for every 20 deliveries at the hospital at least nine women develop fistula.

Victims of Former Chadian Dictator Seek Justice from African Union
Voice of America
Despite AU and European offers of financial support to hold a trial Senegal has not acted and human rights activists are urging the AU at its summit which opens Wednesday in Sirte Libya to move proceedings ahead. From Sirte Human Rights Watch attorney Reed Brody who counsels Chadian war victims in their recovery efforts says that after 18 years it?s time to bring Habre to justice. ?Three years ago the leaders of Africa called on Senegal to prosecute Hissene Habre. Three years later that hasn?t happened.