The News Review:

- Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
- Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
- Senegal Calls for Guinea to Honor Electoral Promises
- Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
- RPT-UPDATE 2-ArcelorMittal suspends Senegal iron ore project
- Twins 51 were very close relatives say

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.
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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.

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.

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.

RPT-UPDATE 2-ArcelorMittal suspends Senegal iron ore project
Reuters
PA is suspending development of itsFaleme iron ore project in Senegal as a result of the globaleconomic downturn a company source in the West African countrysaid on Friday. 2 billion project in the south-east of the countrywas due to begin producing steelmaking raw material iron ore in2011 and full production capacity was estimated at 25 milliontonnes per year. “We are suspending the project for the time being because ofthe economic situation worldwide but we hope to carry out theproject as soon as the situation gets better” the source saidspeaking on condition of anonymity. The project which included building a new port and railwayline would have created 10000 jobs for Senegalese workers thecompany said when announcing the inception of the plan in 2007.
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Twins 51 were very close relatives say
Boston Globe
“James used to tell me ‘We came into this world together we are going to go together’ ’’ said a sister Rosalyn Carpenter 53 who lives in Randolph. The bodies of the brothers 51 were found Monday in separate rooms in their Fenway apartment. The same day John Keita Jr. who had arrived from Senegal West Africa just weeks ago walked up the stairs to the third floor of the Norway Street building where his father and uncle lived. Inside he encountered neighbors standing outside their door and a foul odor filled the hallway. He knocked and called out to them but no one answered. The caretaker initially refused to let him into the apartment for fear of facing criminal charges John Keita Jr.