By Nick Tattersall
DAKAR, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade cut the number of ministers in his government by more than a quarter on Tuesday in a belt-tightening show of solidarity with citizens hit by rising fuel and food prices.
Wade reduced the number of cabinet posts to 28 from 38, with the ministers of […]

What: African Underground: Featuring Balla Kouyate
When: December 15th 2007
Time: 9 pm till 3 am
Where: Rose Live Music 345 Grand St, Brooklyn NY
RSVP: rsvp@nomadicwax.com
Links: Rose Live Music, Directions, Balla Kouyate

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
PARIS, Nov. 27 — Two years after France’s immigrant suburbs exploded in rage, the rituals and acts of resentment have reappeared with an eerie sameness: roving gangs clashing with riot police forces, the government appealing for calm, residents complaining that they are ignored.
And while the scale of the unrest of the past few […]

By Nick Tattersall
KHELCOM FIELDS, Senegal, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of Senegalese Muslims, from bankers to bus drivers, flocked to the country’s dusty peanut fields this week in an annual show of devotion to the powerful Mouride brotherhood.
Bent double under blazing sunshine, ranks of men, women and children harvested the groundnuts by hand from the […]