The News Review:

- Stars jet off as Senegal arrival remains secret
- Senegal to increase rural electrification by 50 pct in five years
- High-grade mineralised zone identified at Senegal gold-prospect
- Bush seeks doubling of AIDS-fighting funds

Stars jet off as Senegal arrival remains secret
IPPmedia – May 30, 2007
Taifa Stars will on Saturday host Senegal in the 2008 African Cup of Nations Group Seven return leg qualifying match at the CCM Kirumba Stadium. The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Information fficer Florian Kaijage said yesterday the team would jet off at 6:30am with a contingent of 27 players and the technical staff. The players who make the trip are Ivo Mpunda Saud Slim Ally Mustapha Shadrack Nsajigwa Mecky Mexime Ibrahim Mwaipopo Kigi Makasi Erasto Nyoni Salvatory Ndebe Henry Joseph Vincent Barnabas and Nizar Khalfan. thers are Abdi Kassim Salum Sued Victor Costa Malegesi Mwangwa Abdulrahim Amour Juma Said Nyosso Nadir Haroub `Cannavaro` Haruna Moshi Joseph Kaniki Said Maulid Amir Maftah Danny Mrwanda Jerry Tegete and Yasin Mohamed.

Senegal to increase rural electrification by 50 pct in five years
People's Daily nline – May 30, 2007
“We have to accelerate the level access to electricity in rural areas to 50 percent by 2012” and this is the objective of the government the minister said Tuesday during a meeting with Aliou Niang general director of the Senegalese Agency for Rural Electrification (ASER). According to the Minister Senegal will strive to achieve this objective with the support of financial partners including the World Bank and the African Development Bank (ADB).

High-grade mineralised zone identified at Senegal gold-prospect
miningweekly.co.za – May 30, 2007
This high-grade mineralised zone was associated with a steeply dipping felsic intrusive region under the mineable reserve openpit design. The zone is characterised by intense silicification and pyrite often including brecciated volcanoclastic rocks that are hematite-altered giving the zone a reddish colour the company said in a statement. Last week the company announced that drilling at the east flat zone of the project had shown that the project contained more than the 101-million ounces of mineable reserves indicated in the preliminary pit design. Edited by: Liezel Hill Topics in this article Country Senegal.

Bush seeks doubling of AIDS-fighting funds
Turkish Press – May 30, 2007
Bush on Wednesday urged lawmakers to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide — a doubling of current funds to battle the global scourge. And she’s going to come back with her findings” the president said. Bush urged the US Congress to renew and double his President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) which has 15 billion dollars and is due to expire in September 2008. “The generosity of the American people is one of the great untold stories of our time.