Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world with its GDP only marginally higher than Haiti’s, but that has not stopped the government from going ahead with a plan to offer a new home to 163 victims of the catastrophic earthquake.

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will take part in a political conference in the North today.

THE death toll from Senegal’s ferry disaster could top 1,000 after President Abdoulaye Wade conceded yesterday that children under five would have gone un-ticketed – and thus apparently uncounted in the death toll.