The News Review:
- Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS
- Transfer Talk: Tigers in dark over Beye
- Senegal’s black arts festival in December 2010: report
- Guinea on alert for ‘attack plot’
- Senegal records big fall in clandestine migrants bound for Europe
- Buddy flick walks line between life and death
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).
Transfer Talk: Tigers in dark over Beye
Independent
Hull manager Phil Brown has not given up on signing the Newcastle centre-back Habib Beye after the Senegal international handed in a transfer request. Hull manager Phil Brown has not given up on signing the Newcastle centre-back Habib Beye after the Senegal international handed in a transfer request.
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.
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 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.
Buddy flick walks line between life and death
London Free Press
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