Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
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- Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
- Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
- Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS
- Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
- RPT-UPDATE 2-ArcelorMittal suspends Senegal iron ore project
- Buddy flick walks line between life and death
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 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 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.
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.
Buddy flick walks line between life and death
London Free Press
Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) is a cab driver in Winston-Salem N. Solo has a pregnant wife and a beautiful little stepdaughter and his heart’s desire is to work for an airline. He has a frequent fare in a older man named William (Red West).
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