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DAKAR - Senegal has abandoned a planned share sale that would have handed majority ownership of state telecoms company Sonatel to France Telecom, government and union officials said on Friday.

ANTANANARIVO, (Reuters) - Madagascar's armed forces said on Tuesday they were ready to fulfil their duties if a bitter power struggle that has killed about 125 people is not resolved quickly.

Close to one billion people will never receive a formal education because governments around the world are not living up to pledges to provide free primary schooling for all by 2015, aid groups said on Wednesday.

The German telecommunications supplier Ericsson has announced its participation in the Millennium village project to provide connectivity in Africa especially in rural areas.

At least ten African Heads of State are xpected to attend the forthcoming information and communication technology summit in Kigali-Rwanda, on 28 October 2007, to discuss key Information and communication technologies (ICT) related issues for the Africa region.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Monday he would pull his country's troops out of Darfur if it was determined that African peacekeepers who were killed at the weekend were not equipped to defend themselves.

They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains

Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Senegal on Thursday on his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa to underscore France's ties with ex-colonies and promote the diplomatic priority of African development.

The world can promote development in Africa by supporting the private sector in Africa, as Spanish businesses agreed to do this week, and combating people-trafficking mafias, according to a non-governmental aid group.

Oil rebounded above $64 a barrel on Thursday as bargain hunting buyers stepped in after a month long rout and a renewed U.S. push for immediate sanctions against Iran