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AFRICAN BRIEFS

continued from page 21 the Dept, of Defense, its mission is to fight terror-

eting prices of basic foods the market,

including rice and oil. Police used tear gas and sticks to disperse the crowd organized by the

nwnsumer Association of

'ffenegal (Ascosen), and the National Union of

FRENCH AID WORK-

ERS FREED AS REBELS STEP UP

ATTACKS

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Burrows and Sanchez ism, protect access to Oil and other resources, and counter China’s growing economic involvement on the continent, “Terrorism is what we faced from the colonialists’ civilizing missions,” said Campbell. “Then there’s the economic terrorism of the World Bank, IMF and Wall St... The U.S. is fabricating terrorism in Africa in order to justify military intervention,” he charged. “Don’t forget that in the 1980s, (Nelson) Mandela was a terrorist and (Osama) Bin Laden was a freedom fighter,” he observed. Woods noted that Africom would put the Defense Department first in running health programs, drilling wells, building schools and other social programs in Africa - displacing the traditional State Dept. role. “We must de-fund Africom,” said Woods, urging the audience to contact NJ Rep. Donald Payne, chair of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. Payne’s office said the congressman objected to

limbs to the deadly landmines of Cold War days in the western nation of Angola, will compete this

om-r ur week in the first ever Miss

Consumer Association of ATTACKS Landmine 2008 beauty ■ c Senegal (Ascosen), and contest in a luxury hotel in ^ the National Union of (GIN) - The President of Luanda, the capital. KCo^smners of Senegal. ”Otad, ^<&s Deby Itno, The pageant, organized Leaders of the two groups, has pardoned the six by Angola s de-mining Jean Pierre Dieng and French aid workers con- commission, aims to

fIHB —jffjfFmd includ- Momar Ndao, were victed of abducting 103 restore the confidence of ing failure to consult with amon § those arrested, youngsters for adoption victims and raise awarehis and other departments. Members of the Socialist by Europeans. The work- ness of their plight. Tens “Pres. Bush called his °PP os ition also took part ers were immediately of thousands have been trip ‘a mission of mercy,’ m P r °test. released from a French maimed by these devices said Berrigan skeptically. Authorities said the prison where they were to supplied by western coun“Our government officials demonstration had not have served 8 years. Jjt tries during the 27 year refer to killing as ‘kinetic ^ een authorised. At least President Deby’s sur-y^long war that ended in

engagement.’ 24 people were arrested prise about-face on the 2002.

" Sonia Sanchez, a play- and man y ^ stiU bei “g French workers Eighteen women, one wright, poet and social detained, according to the believed by some to be from every province, will activist, closed the meet- Agence France Press. tied to military aid he take part. Madalena Neto, ing with a call for cultural T-shirts that read “we received from France to co-ordinator of the deunderstanding and a long are hungry," were worn by squash an insurgent upris- mining commission, said poem on war and peace. Fyoung Others ' i«g -f wMlft |she wants the contestants “All we are simply had red pieces of cloth as demanding his removal^ to become ambassadors saying is let us begin This rfcajil J|r "d of landmines, discussion of peace,’’ their arms as a si £ n of ste PP ed U P their anti-gov- “I'm completely Sanchez said in a recent P m ^ | , V f, eminent tfacr siastic about par

interview. “Let us begin to

invigorate this earth with Paris-based Reporters peace. Let us begin again WlthoM | Borders, CO»~ the whole idea of people demned acts of police ly being able to live on this ^ rut earth in a peaceful fash- Ders

ion. Let us begin again the beginning work that must be done that says, simply, that peace is necessary.”

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photographs by: Rachel

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SENEGAL ROCKED BY FOOD PROTESTS

(GIN)

groups are up in arms over Agriculture

Minister ■■■■■■■■

GOLA HOSTS

a notice' crackdown on Hamath Sail. “ifUWfo*'*' BEAUTY PAGEANT

achieve food self-suffi- FOR LANDMINE

VICTIMS

Monday in the capital moment when it will be

Dakar to protest skyrock- i m possible to find rice in (GIN) - Women who lost

Senegalese consumer

groups who rallied c i enc y> there will be a

enthu-

participat-

ing," said 25-year-old Paulina Vadi. "I think that it will give society a wake-up call to be more attentive to disabled peo-

ple in general."

Vadi was a fourth-grad-er when she went to a field to gather fruit. A sudden military attack sent her

a and running for cover. She {of last stepped on a Russianal, to made mine and lost her sponsibili- right leg. Despite an aggression extensive de-mining proave unpre- gram, millions of land-

mines remain littered across Angola - and this means great stretches of the country are still too dangerous to farm or to

travel through.

www.miss-landmine.org

nsequences".