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Since Friday, the local press is largely up to the arrest and indictment, Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade, and one of his senior ministers (often called "Minister of Heaven and Earth "because its portfolio included including air and land transport).

It is particularly suspected of personal enrichment (it is said in some circles Dakar that for every building built in Dakar since 2000, when it took power from his father, Karim Wade has taken a "tithing" in kind an apartment ... for the building frenzy, it's still a lot of flats!).

The magistrates now have six months to complete their investigation. If sent to the Court of repression of illicit enrichment, Karim Wade faces a sentence of 5 to 10 years in prison and a fine of one to two times enrichment suspected or still a whopping 694 to 1388 billion CFA francs (1.1 to 2.1 billion euro!). This compares to 2.2 trillion francs annual budget Senegalese ...

Big event this weekend at the Central Bank in the region (located in Dakar), with the launch of a new ticket, 500 CFA francs (approximately € 75 cents), from a complete series consists of previously tickets 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 FCFA.

The success of this new cut is uncertain, given the dimensions of the ticket announced by the local Pravda, The Sun:

Much has been said in the last week in France of AGRASC, Agency management and recovery of assets seized and forfeited, which have reported 812 million euros to the state in two years of existence, selling property auction seized in the arrests of offenders.

This news was somewhat overshadowed operation "punch" another original initiative. October 22, teams of French customs, phytosanitary services and the Central Office for the fight against environmental damage, have indeed led a spectactulaire operation CDG. Targeting two flights from Kinshasa, the teams were to intercept illegal food imports. The operation was a success because it helped not catch less than 600 kg of banned products, a large part of "bushmeat" (monkey, crocodile, pangolin, porcupine or antelope, including of protected species), often packaged in very basic conditions and, of course, without phytosanitary certification. According to some sources, a former prime minister of a country in Central Africa would be part of successful searches, with almost 12 kgs of meat from protected monkeys.

While most entries were personal destination, some passengers have recognized using these original deliveries to feed some African restaurants in the capital of rare meat.

In the taxi yesterday, was for the first time received a red light a copy of a free newspaper classified ads , it was the number 03, so nothing wrong with not falling over in the past.

It was great fun to read the page Beauty - Health in particular. Divided into two sections, it comprises a first portion Meeting / Clairvoyance (here, not "write to the newspaper," we put directly on mobile number):

1. "Aged 32 JH looking girl 22 to 45 years for a relationship of friendship" flexible on age;
2. "JH 30 years looking girl of 25 or 40 years to exchange ideas Contact" there is rather specific ...
3. "JH looking for online adult mature relationship pourant lead to marriage" ad double and the other is spelled correctly ... probably a correction sent later, the newspaper has not bothered to replace;

The second section is titled Health / Beauty / Massage:

1. "Give yoga for your health problems, muscular nerves" thank you, my nerves are pretty muscular like that;
2. "Mina Massage offers you the most good massage with care and all in a quiet location" if it's good, it's no worse would our friends Quebecers ...
3. "Mina offers you massage Thai massage, rum tick massage in a luxurious and discreet": they are decidedly strong, in Mina ...
4. "Boin Coin you want a heavenly massage cleansing your body with massage option rhamatique" Decidedly, there are words that do not go ...
5. "Nirvana Massage is a relaxing massage becomes fun with beautiful girl that are available massage boby boby": if an English officer who made the massage, it is rather chic, actually

If ads for products depigmentation were ubiquitous in India, they are in Africa rather a specialty of central and eastern Europe. So when a brand of cream out that:

attack against the "Black is beautiful" is mobilized quickly on Facebook:

Black is really beautiful, in these conditions, even if the work was facilitated by a commercial basis particularly missed ...

We finally finished (without photos in the text, but they are HERE ) the report in English, on a specialized forum, part of the safari trip to Tanzania, and it is

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This week, an article in Slate Africa on trade of seduction in Dakar.

Finally resume this series theoretically weekly, a quiz!

African personality which was recently named "the UN Special Envoy for tourism?" :

1. The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986
2. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kinkwete
3. The head of the conservation of Egyptian antiquities, Zahi Hawass
4. Zimbabwean dictator Mugabe Rober

Still rigorous, calls a local Pravda:

To change the people, a section of Rue 89 on life in the depths of the country ...