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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police just days before a contentious presidential poll.

It marks the fifth day of violent protests ahead of the country's crucial vote. President Abdoulaye Wade, 85, is insisting on running again, despite the deepening unrest and calls from both France and the United States to hand power to the next generation.

Recently, I had lunch with a very powerful Republican elected official who is a good friend of mine.  We have extremely candid conversations, especially about race (he is white).  Out of nowhere he asked me what was the reason Blacks have a historical affinity for Cadillac automobiles (named after the French explorer who founded Detroit in 1701).

I responded by saying the same reason Blacks had a historical affinity for the Republican Party.  He looked very confused and said, “what does that have to do with my question?” I then said to him, “let me teach you a little history.”

The hope of a secure, peaceful, tolerant and prosperous student union in China lies with dedicated discipline to liberty, selflessness and transparency of public characters as manifested by leading social icons like Dr. M. L. King, Nelson Mandela and Dr. M. Mohammad. These are people whose ideologies of human development and social equity hinge on peace, nonviolence, strength and sacrifice. We have noted that in the press release by the secretariat of the student union, the current executive distanced itself from the corruption scandals in the union and denied any links with the APC Asian Branch (AAB).

New York, February 15, 2012-A Liberian police officer roughed up a journalist trying to cover allegations of harassment of motorists by police on Sunday, according to news reports. Edwin Genoway, a journalist for the daily New Dawn newspaper, was assaulted and threatened by a police officer while reporting on alleged police harassment at ELWA Junction in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, the capital, according to news reports. Motorists had told the journalist that police were seizing drivers' keys and demanding money from them, New Dawn reported.

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, February 10, 2012/ -- The Secretary General of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) (http://www.acp.int) H. E Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas presented a list of key priorities for the organization, setting the tone in the lead up to the ACP Heads of State Summit to be held this December in Equatorial Guinea.

Speaking to journalists today, Dr Chambas declared 2012 to be a “year of restoration”, underlining plans to enhance the ACP as a “forward-looking international organization.”

I originally had absolutely no intention of writing about the recent flap surrounding TV personality Roland Martin, but because of the unfair treatment he has received; and his seeming inability to defend himself, I feel compelled to speak out.

Martin is a syndicated newspaper columnist, a political analyst for CNN, and host of his own TV show on TV One.  During last Sunday’s Super Bowl, he tweeted:  “Ain’t no real bruhs going to H&M to buy some damn David Beckham underwear!

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals" Martin Luther King, Jr. It is against this backdrop that I continue to call upon the elected SLSUC executive for the 2011-2012 academic year to immediately launch a thorough and impartial investigation into the embezzlements of student union funds by the out-gone 2011-executive.

A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, announced in a statement released Thursday, that Mr. Michael von der Schulenburg - the Executive Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of its mission in Sierra Leone, will depart Freetown for New York on Monday, February 6, 2012.

As a prelude to the presidential election in Sierra Leone, scheduled in November, a matter relating to money sent to Conakry by President Ernest Bai Koromah, is being divisive within the Sierra Leone community in Guinea, Conakryinfos has learned from sources close to this community.

Fresh clashes erupted in Senegal Wednesday as the opposition mulled a new strategy to force octogenarian leader Abdoulaye Wade to scrap his controversial ambitions for a third term in office.

Pressure mounted on Wade with former colonial ruler France demanding a "generational change" and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressing concern as police on Wednesday used tear gas and rubber bullets on student protestors.