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WEST AFRICA: IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 336 covering 24 - 30 June 2006 CONTENTS: AFRICA: China and Africa - For better or for worse? MAURITANIA: Voters embrace pro-democracy reforms NIGERIA: Media harassment on the rise ahead of presidential elections, rights group SUDAN-CHAD: Chadians look for refuge in volatile Darfur AFRICA: Worlds troubles may steal the show at AU summit GUINEA-BISSAU: Undertaking measures against cholera AFRICA: China and Africa - For better or for worse? Given Chinas growing hunger for natural resources and Africas persistent need for economic aid, the worlds most populous country and the globes poorest continent appear to be nurturing a perfect symbiotic relationship. Or is it? http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54248&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=AFRICA MAURITANIA: Voters embrace pro-democracy reforms Some 96 percent of Mauritanians voted Yes to constitutional changes meant to bring an end to military coups and paving the way for elections next year. Provisional results of the weekend referendum, released on Monday by the Minister of the Interior, said that 76 percent of voters had turned out. The changes put limits of two five-year terms on future presidents, ensuring that power changes hands every decade in a country where the last president remained in office for over twenty years. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54238&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=MAURITANIA NIGERIA: Media harassment on the rise ahead of presidential elections, rights group Human rights groups say that media harassment is on the rise in Nigeria following the arrest of two journalists charged with sedition after publishing critical news reports about President Olusegun Obasanjo's government. Rotimi Durojaiye of the Daily Independent newspaper and Gbenga Aruleba of Africa Independent Television were in an Abuja federal court on Tuesday facing six counts of working with intent to bring into hatred or contempt or excite disaffection against the person of the president. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54286&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=NIGERIA rights group SUDAN-CHAD: Chadians look for refuge in volatile Darfur Insecurity in southeastern Chad has become so widespread that more than 11,000 people, fleeing militia attacks, have recently left their villages to seek refuge in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, aid workers say. Since Chadian rebels based in Darfur started attacking government strongholds late last year, Chad has pulled its cash-strapped army back to protect key towns, leaving vast swathes of the border unprotected. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54299&SelectRegion=East_Africa,%20West_Africa&SelectCountry=SUDAN-CHAD AFRICA: Worlds troubles may steal the show at AU summit The African Union (AU) faces two key challenges during its annual summit in Banjul this weekend, but they risk being overshadowed by the arrival of two of the worlds most talked about leaders. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are scheduled to attend the summit at the invitation of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. All three leaders recently have clashed with the United States over separate issues: Ahmadinejad over Irans nuclear ambitions; Chavez over oil; and Jammeh over his countrys human rights record. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54311&SelectRegion=Global,%20West_Africa&SelectCountry=AFRICA GUINEA-BISSAU: Undertaking measures against cholera A surge in cases of watery diarrhoea has raised concerns of an impending cholera outbreak in the crumbling capital Bissau. The Health Ministry has ordered the closure of all traditional wells in the capital and urged the suspension of traditional ceremonies in an effort to prevent large gatherings that might facilitate the spread of disease. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54327&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=GUINEA-BISSAU [ENDS] This is non-reply e-mail. 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