Senegal is to reclaim control of its airports and air traffic from a pan-African body it has threatened to quit, a Transport Ministry official said on Friday. ”As of May 10, Senegal will take back from ASECNA [Agency for the Security of Navigation in Africa and Madagascar] the running of its aeronautical activities,” said Yoro Sarr, an adviser to Air Transport Minister Farba Senghor.
Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade said on Monday there was neither famine nor hunger riots in the West African country, blaming a recent rally on opposition groups. ”There is no famine in Senegal. There are no hunger riots in Senegal,” Wade said while inaugurating an agricultural project in the village of Djilakh, 80km south of Dakar.