The Toronto Star's Allan Woods reports on a Senegalese accused terrorist with Canadian connections and his personal history.

As the child of a Senegalese diplomat, Assane Kamara was accustomed to finding his place in unfamiliar lands. In his 24 years, he had lived in Ivory Coast, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Madagascar ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Brian Eckhouse notes Senegal's development of solar energy.

Senegal plans to build as much as 200 megawatts of solar power, with at least half of that up and running within two years, after joining an International Finance Corp. program designed to promote wider use of clean energy in sub-Saharan Africa ( Read more... )

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• Al Jazeera notes the Iraqi desire for foreign intervention, the problems with sex-offender registries, and the plight of former nuclear workers at Hanford in the United States.
• Bloomberg observes Russian resistance to Western pressure and Ukrainian alliance-seeking, notes that Senegal was declared Ebola-free, looks at the terrible job market in ( Read more... )

Terrible news about the prospects for Ebola in West Africa, as reported by Wired's Maryn McKenna.

The Ebola epidemic in Africa has continued to expand since I last wrote about it, and as of a week ago, has accounted for more than 4,200 cases and 2,200 deaths in five countries: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone. That is ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera notes the breakdown of the Libyan state.
• Bloomberg mentions Finland's new interest in NATO, notes European Union plans to strengthen sanctions against Russia, takes note of China's vetoing of democracy in Hong Kong and looks at China's strengthening of its South China Sea holdings, and in West Africa notes the unburied bodies in the ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams reacts to yesterday's announcement that Kepler had found another 715 planets. What an embarrassment of riches!
• Crooked Timber's Chris Bertram mourns the freer blogging culture of old, before things because set and professionalized.
• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh argues that, with a shrinking population and stagnant incomes, Japan- ( Read more... )

It's not every day that I come across two Guardian article written about the emergence of different African grains onto the world food market. Yesterday was that day.

First, published last month, was Claire Provost and Elissa Jobson's "Move over quinoa, Ethiopia's teff poised to be next big super grain" celebrating teff.

At Addis Ababa airport, ( Read more... )

• 80 Beats reports that the drug Truvada failed to protect some participants in a study on HIV infection in Africa from infection as a prophylactic mainly because they weren't taking it.
• Far Outliers quotes from a passage in Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom to the effect that Prussia in the mid-19th century was becoming increasingly diverse, along ( Read more... )

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