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SENEGAL News:
20080119
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 Food
-  Oil
-  Money
-  Poverty
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- "A
New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories."
... "Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest
slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States
are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new
factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners
unable to afford the raw material." ... "This is the other oil shock. From
India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil
and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example
of a developing global problem: costly food." ... "The food price index
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, based on
export prices for 60 internationally traded foodstuffs, climbed 37 percent
last year. That was on top of a 14 percent increase in 2006, and the trend
has accelerated this winter." ... "In some poor countries, desperation
is taking hold. Just in the last week, protests have erupted in Pakistan
over wheat shortages, and in Indonesia over soybean shortages. Egypt has
banned rice exports to keep food at home, and China has put price controls
on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs." ... "According to the F.A.O.,
food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico,
Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen." ... "A startling change is unfolding
in the world’s food markets. Soaring fuel prices have altered the equation
for growing food and transporting it across the globe. Huge demand for
biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using
it for food." ... "Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.
But in the developing world, cooking oil is an important source of calories
and represents one of the biggest cash outlays for poor families, which
grow much of their own food but have to buy oil in which to cook it." (1,
2,
3)
-By Keith Bradsher with contributions by Andrew Martin,
Anand Giridharadas, and Michael Rubenstein
-NYTimes
20030709
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- "Bush
touches down in Africa, denounces American slavery."
... "President Bush opened his five-day African trip Tuesday with a forceful
denunciation of America's slave-holding past and a pledge to
work more closely with African nations to help them build a prosperous
and peaceful future." ... "After meeting with the West African leaders
and his host for the day, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Bush rode
Wade's presidential yacht across Dakar's harbor to Goree Island, the westernmost
tip in Africa and the point of embarkation centuries ago for at least 1
million slaves." ... ""At this place, liberty and life were stolen and
sold," the president said. "One of the largest migrations of history was
also one of the greatest crimes of the century."" ... "Bush condemned slavery
in strikingly religious terms. "For 250 years, the captives endured
an assault on their culture and their dignity," he said. "The spirit of
Africans in America did not break. Yet the spirit of their captors was
corrupted. . . . Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands
of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on
equality for all became a prison for millions."" -By
Richard W. Stevenson -NYTimes
with contributions by the -WashingtonPost
via -StarTribune.com
20020928
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"Senegal
Ferry Sinks; Over 700 Dead: Many Caught Inside
As Atlantic Storm Struck at Night." ... "More than 760 people were believed
dead today [20020927]
after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88
bodies recovered and others spotted trapped inside the vessel." ... "The
Joola, a state-owned ferry, capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about
11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the
country." -By
Nafi Diouf -AP via -WashingtonPost
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