The News Review:
- Formula ne star Massa leaves hospital flies home
- Review: Singer music soar in ‘Youssou N’Dour’
- Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
- Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
- Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
- Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS
- Senegal Calls for Guinea to Honor Electoral Promises
Formula ne star Massa leaves hospital flies home
AFP
Massa was accompanied by his wife Rafaela and his doctor Dino Altman. His jet flew out of the Hungarian capital Budapest and was expected to stop over in Dakar Senegal before flying on to Sao Paulo. The pilot will go to a Brazilian hospital for check-ups but is not going to be further hospitalised his father Luiz Antonio Massa said earlier. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved. More »Related articles.
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Review: Singer music soar in ‘Youssou N’Dour’
San Francisco Chronicle
” All these qualities are on display in this mesmerizing documentary that follows N’Dour from his native Senegal around the world and home again. Besides its intimate portrayal of N’Dour and his music “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love” is a primer on Islam in West Africa. N’Dour is a practicing Muslim and for most of his sterling career he separated his faith from his pop-oriented music. But in 2004 N’Dour released the album “Egypt” which combined classical Arab orchestration with African rhythms and songs praising Senegal’s mystical Sufi Islamic traditions. Director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi captured the recording sessions – and the controversy in Senegal where religious figures chastised N’Dour for incorporating sacred Muslim themes into his songs.
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’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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Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS
Le Mali en ligne
He however called for more funding from the two groups with a view to dealing a final blow to the scourge. Ndiaye also said the religious groups could do a lot in the fight by raising the awareness campaign on the dangers of the disease. The Prime Minister said that the disease was more rampant in the region of Kedougou eastern Senegal where the mining companies had attracted a large population of migrants from other countries and regions. He pledged government’s determination to continue to fight the disease until the national prevalent rate fell to less than 1 per cent? adding that Senegal had earmarked 1. 4 billion CFA francs to buy antiretroviral drugs (ARV).
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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.