The News Review:

- Lens sign Senegal’s Mangane
- SENEGAL: CHINESE GDS STIMULATE INFRMAL TRADING ECNMY.
- Iran to supply crude oil to Senegal
- Iran to invest in Senegal’s SAR
- Iran to Supply Crude il to Senegal
- Is This Mining Company a Potential Investment?
- Waiting for the Argus: Theodore Gericault and The Raft of the Medusa

Lens sign Senegal’s Mangane
BBC News – Aug 28, 2007
The 24-year-old midfielder moves from Swiss side Young Boys on a five-year contract. The twice-capped Senegal international was signed to fortify the midfield of Lens who are third from bottom of the Ligue 1 standings with just two points from four matches. "I feel honoured to have signed for this great French side" Mangane said.

SENEGAL: CHINESE GDS STIMULATE INFRMAL TRADING ECNMY.
Free with registration – Inter Press Service – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 28, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Global Information Network By Hamadou Tidiane Sy DAKAR Senegal Aug. The neighborhood has no trademark red lanterns to set itself apart. It consists of a double row of houses of which the front sides have been transformed into shops. Chinese traders live in these buildings selling cheap goods imported from their home country to local petty traders.

Iran to supply crude oil to Senegal
Middle East Times – Aug 28, 2007
The agreement was inked between the two nations during a working visit to Tehran by Senegal’s energy minister Samuel Sarr a source in his ministry said. It envisages the “supply of Iranian crude oil for a year to the African Refining Company [SAR]” in which the state holds a majority share the source said. The source said the National Iranian il Refining and Distribution Company planned to pick up more than a 34-percent share in SAR in the course of this year. No details were given about the quantity of oil to be supplied.

Iran to invest in Senegal’s SAR
PRESS TV – Aug 28, 2007
Iran will also supply oil to the African Refining Company (SAR) for one year. The Senegalese state holds a majority share in SAR. The agreement was signed between the two nations during a visit to Tehran by Senegal’s Energy Minister Samuel Sarr. The National Iranian il Refining and Distribution Company (NIRDC) plans to purchase more than 34 percent of SAR’s shares this year.

Iran to Supply Crude il to Senegal
Fars News Agency – Aug 28, 2007
It envisages the “supply of Iranian crude oil for a year to the African Refining Company (SAR)” in which the state holds a majority share the source said. The source said the National Iranian il Refining and Distribution Company planned to pick up more than a 34-percent share in SAR in the course of this year. No details were given about the quantity of oil to be supplied. Iran has steadily stepped up investments in the West African nation.

Is This Mining Company a Potential Investment?
Independent Financial & Investment… – Aug 28, 2007
“We are pretty ce rtain” he explained “that we will find the same rich mineral sands in Senegal as we have in The Gambia. And the quantity could be much larger. ” Astron is funding half of Carnegie?s exploration costs in Senegal and work is well underway. In June Hopkins was able to report that the ore reserve at Niafarang just a few kilometres south of the Gambian border had been classified in the Probable re Reserve Category and samples have been sent for assaying to an Australian laboratory. There is every reason to believe that Carnegie will be shipping zircon rutile and ilmenite from Senegal before long. Strangely none of this progress has been reflected in the share price which at today’s level of 7p has slipped below last year?s issue price and values the company at just £4m. Alan Hopkins cannot understand this ? and neither can I.

Waiting for the Argus: Theodore Gericault and The Raft of the Medusa
Monthly Review – Aug 28, 2007
At midday on July 2 1816 the frigate Medusa flying the white flag of Bourbon France and bound from Rochefort to Senegal with a cargo of arms ammunition and other supplies for the soldiers and colonists it bore ran aground on a sandy shoal fifty miles from the African coast. The shoal was well known to navigators and clearly marked on the captain’s charts; but the captain — an inept placeman named Chaumereys who owed his appointment to noble blood and Royalist politics — had set the ship’s course straight for it despite warnings from his veteran lieutenants. The Medusa stuck fast to the sandbank gave way to the violence of the breakers. Its hull crumpled and Chaumereys gave the order to evacuate. The lifeboats were too few too small and too decrepit to hold everyone on board; and Chaumereys and the colony’s governor took for themselves the most seaworthy craft.