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The UN Envoy in Liberia, Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj, has commended the departing Seventh Senegalese Battalion in the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), after five years of successful peacekeeping duties in Liberia. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) was speaking in southeastern Maryland County, bordering Cote d'Iviore, when she awarded UN peacekeeping medals to the Senegalese, who will be replaced by Ethiopian peacekeepers. (AllAfrica)

DAKAR Monday, April 07, 2008 (IRIN) - While driving a rusty old yellow taxi through Dakar’s potholed streets looking for customers, Abdou Ndoye told IRIN how he and his family of nine gets by on the 2,000 CFA francs [US$4.80] he makes a day. (irinnews.org)

NEW YORK Sunday, April 06, 2008 (IRIN) - With soaring food prices expected to continue for the foreseeable future, the World Bank is calling for a “new deal” of long-term measures, ranging from increased investment in African agriculture to genetically engineering fuel-producing plants. (irinnews.org)

DUBAI Thursday, April 03, 2008 (IRIN) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given US$26.8 million to Cornell University in the USA for a new global project to fight wheat (stem) rust disease, which specialists say poses a threat to world food security. (irinnews.org)

Following a now well established trend in Africa, Senegal, which is viewed by many as a democratic model in the region, may soon change a key clause of its Constitution if a proposal by the government is approved. (AllAfrica)

President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal threatens to sue the FAO, accused of deducting 20 per cent of the aid funds collected on behalf of the African countries confronted with food crisis. (AllAfrica)

Even as international efforts to find a solution to soaring world food prices continue, outspoken Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade this week launched a scathing attack on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), saying it should be scrapped. (AllAfrica)

"Chad has nothing to do with this adventure"

Sudan announced on Sunday it would lodge an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Chad's government for its role in the rebel attack on Khartoum. via Sudan.net

"Currently in Senegal only 50 percent of arable farmland is cultivated"

Senegalese experts said Thursday that biofuel production in Africa is not a threat to their country's food security, echoing a call for more jatropha tree production from Nigeria. via The Age

After years of delays linked to instability in strife-torn Casamance, the government finally launched a landmine clearance programme in the region in February 2008, but lack of adherence to the 2004 peace accord is hampering progress. (AllAfrica)

Stéphanie Malak was injured by a landmine in 1998 when her village, was attacked, allegedly by rebels from the Movement for Democratic Change (MFDC), and then mined. She fled with her family to Ziguinchor where she is trying to make ends meet. She told IRIN her story. (AllAfrica)

The news may have come as a surprise to the French, whose leaders are always talking about the influx of Africans, and the threat this "invasion" poses to their economy and culture. (AllAfrica)

Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their left ears with machetes, according to the victims and the Senegalese army. (AllAfrica)

ZIGUINCHOR Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Stéphanie Malak was injured by a landmine in 1998 when her village, was attacked, allegedly by rebels from the Movement for Democratic Change (MFDC), and then mined. She fled with her family to Ziguinchor where she is trying to make ends meet. She told IRIN her story. (irinnews.org)

ZIGUINCHOR Friday, May 09, 2008 (IRIN) - After years of delays linked to instability in strife-torn Casamance, the government finally launched a landmine clearance programme in the region in February 2008, but lack of adherence to the 2004 peace accord is hampering progress. (irinnews.org)

"They tied our hands before cutting off one ear each"

Map-- BBC The BBC is reporting : Armed men have cut off the left ears of 16 villagers harvesting cashew nuts in Senegal's rebel-hit Casamance region. via Exploring International Law

"All 17 people got their left ears sliced off"

Unidentified attackers sliced the left ears off 17 people in Senegal's restive southern province of Casamance, a region long plagued by separatist rebel violence, police in the West African country said on ... via Reuters

Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation. (AllAfrica)

Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade pleads for the elimination of the FAO and the transfer of its competences and facilities to the International Fund for agricultural development (IFAD) that will be then turned into a new organisation called "World Fund for Assistance to Agriculture" with its headquarters in Africa. (AllAfrica)

ZIGUINCHOR Thursday, May 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their left ears with machetes, according to the victims and the Senegalese army. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, May 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Canada is the latest major donor country to break the link between overseas food aid and supporting its own farmers. (irinnews.org)

"We are increasingly living in a global village, and it's incumbent upon all of us to reach out and become culturally aware"

COLCHESTER - The Vermont National Guard will be working closely with the military from the Republic of Senegal as part of a U.S. effort to have closer diplomatic ties with nations from Africa. via BurlingtonFreePress.com

If the new agricultural programme announced by the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade succeeds, it will be one of the greatest agricultural and economic revolutions in post colonial Africa. (AllAfrica)

At least 60 students and 19 teachers from Lycée Chérif Samsideen Hydara, a high school in Wellingara, Senegal, on Saturday May 3, concluded a four day exchange visit to Armitage Senior School in Janjangbureh, Central River Region (CRR). (AllAfrica)

"I am convinced it is the rebels who have laid this mine and they are targeting the army"

One man was killed and 20 passengers injured when a bus drove over a landmine near the village of Lefeu, 70km north of the Casamance capital Ziguinchor on 1 May police said. via AllAfrica.com

We write to draw your attention to Senegal's long delay in opening proceedings against the former President of Chad, Hissène Habré. We appeal to the African and international communities to encourage Senegal to discharge the mandate it was given by the African Union, and to respect the decision issued by the United Nations Committee against Torture almost two years ago, calling for the trial of Hissène Habré. (AllAfrica)

"Down with those suffocating us!"

Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world. via Buffalo News

"My task force will study the root causes of the crisis and propose solutions - to be executed decisively through coordinated global action - at the upcoming food summit in Rome early in June"

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is moving "at full speed" pushing efforts to tackle the world food crisis. via The York Daily Record

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has called for the United Nations' food agency to be scrapped. via Deutsche Welle

DAKAR, SENEGAL -- South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations ... via Los Angeles Times

One man was killed and 20 passengers injured when a bus drove over a landmine near the village of Lefeu, 70km north of the Casamance capital Ziguinchor on 1 May police said. (AllAfrica)