The News Review:

- Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
- Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
- Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
- Senegal Calls for Guinea to Honor Electoral Promises

Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
AFP
Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium on the United States of Africa Wade said Monday that the third FESMAN (Festival mondial des arts negres) will be held “in December 2010 that’s to say a year and a few months from now. “The first festival took place in Dakar in 1966 largely at the intiative of Leopold Sedar Senghor Senegal’s poet president and champion of black Africa’s cultural heritage. Lagos in Nigeria hosted the second in 1977. Senegal’s government officially postponed the third FESMAN which is to be held as a joint artistic and cultural venture with Brazil on July 21 because of organisational delays.

Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
AFP
The number arrested by Frontex fell from 2743 in 2007 to 494 in 2008. Since the beginning of the year only 33 people have been apprehended and none since January 10. In total “we took 4481 people in for questioning between September 6 2006 and January 10 2009″ said Lieutenant Colonel Alioune Ndiaye the Frontex spokesman in Senegal. Ndiaye said the drop in the number of arrests was because of fewer departures.
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Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
BBC News
The West African state said armed men were gathering on the borders with Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north and Liberia to the south. An announcement on state-run national radio said drugs cartels were believed to be behind the plans. Guinea is a key transit point for drugs en route from the Americas to Europe. When the junta led by Captain Moussa Camara seized power some seven months ago it made the fight against drugs one of its key priorities. Several leading suspects have been arrested and are awaiting trial but the regime must have made powerful enemies in the process correspondents say.

Senegal Calls for Guinea to Honor Electoral Promises
Voice of America
(File)Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is calling for Guinea’s military ruler to keep his promise to hold elections later this year. When Army Captain Moussa Camara took power in Conakry seven months ago he telephoned Senegalese President Wade and asked him to be the international spokesman for his coup. With the United States and European Union condemning the military take-over President Wade said Captain Camara was an honest young man filling a dangerous vacuum following the death of long-time leader Lansana Conte. Wade said the ruling military council deserved international support because it was promising to hold free and fair elections.