The News Review:

- Dry weather to halve Senegal’s crop production
- Dry weather plays havoc with agriculture
- SA Nigeria in same WCup group

Dry weather to halve Senegal’s crop production
Mail & Guardian nline – Nov 25, 2007
Dry conditions have similarly scaled back growth forecasts for the agricultural sector to 45% compared with 56% initially. The country’s economic growth was also sharply lower in 2006 compared with the previous year due to high oil prices among other factors. Meanwhile price hikes for basic foods have sparked protests in Senegal and other parts of West Africa.
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Dry weather plays havoc with agriculture
Independent nline – Nov 25, 2007
The grim news follows the downward revision earlier this month by the country’s finance minister of Senegal’s expected 2007 growth from 54 percent to between 45 percent and 47 percent. Dry conditions have similarly scaled back growth forecasts for the agricultural sector to 45 percent compared to 56 percent initially. The country’s economic growth was also sharply lower in 2006 compared to the previous year due to high oil prices among other factors. Meanwhile price hikes for basic foods have sparked protests in Senegal and other parts of West Africa.

SA Nigeria in same WCup group
BBC News – Nov 25, 2007
Togo are the most disadvantaged of the 12 top seeds having to play all three home matches at neutral venues after recent crowd violence against Mali. They confront Zambia a team thirsting for revenge after a 4-1 thrashing in Lome during the last qualifiers Eritrea and Swaziland in Group 11. Algeria trying to regain the form that delivered two consecutive World Cup appearances in the 1980s look the biggest threat to Group 6 top seeds Senegal. Guinea Zimbabwe Namibia and Kenya the most powerful of the fourth seeds are in Group 2 which appears wide open. And Group 10 first seeds Mali can expect problems from Congo and Sudan the most improved team in Africa this year while Chad are outsiders. There have been 28 African qualifiers for the World Cup since 1934 with quarter-finalists Cameroon (1990) and Senegal (2002) going furthest. The 12 group winners and the best eight runners-up advance to the third and final qualifying phase.