The News Review:

- ‘Senegal is going downhill under Wade’
- Sarkozy vows firm hand with rioters – TVNZ Portable – tvnz.co.nz
- i2 scores high in Top 100 Saudi Companies List
- The other four: Faye Mandaric Storrie McKay
- How Harry Redknapp went to extremes to capture signature of Amdy Faye
- Bolton 1-1 Aris Salonika
- Guard gets wish gives Robert Morris international flavor

‘Senegal is going downhill under Wade’
Independent nline – Nov 29, 2007
Political posturing aimed at positioning his son to succeed him the detention without trial of critical journalists and the diminishing powers of parliament all betray Senegal’s faltering democratic credentials Wade’s critics say. They say his obsession with hosting an international Islamic conference next year – a two-day event for which luxury hotels and new highways are being built in Dakar – have pushed more pressing social and economic problems off the political agenda. “The presidential role has become an arch-institution which is not just overbearing but enslaving and subjugating all the other institutions reducing them to dwarf status” he told a news conference in Dakar on Wednesday.

Sarkozy vows firm hand with rioters – TVNZ Portable – tvnz.co.nz
TVNZ – Nov 29, 2007
The violence has revived memories of the riots in 2005 theworst unrest in France in 40 years when thousands of cars weretorched after two teenagers were accidentally electrocuted in apower sub-station after apparently fleeing police. The new wave of violence erupted on Sunday when two teenagers ona moped were killed in a crash with a police car. A spokesman forthe families said the pair who are French would be buried intheir parents’ homelands – Morocco and Senegal. Violence falls Prime Minister Francois Fillon told parliament a heavy policepresence on Tuesday night had helped restore calm: “Last nightthere were 1000 police on the ground. and we saw the results -there was a very noticeable drop in violence.

i2 scores high in Top 100 Saudi Companies List
Al-Bawaba – Nov 29, 2007
i2 believes they have a responsibility to provide the best solutions and services available in the mobile telecommunications sector to enhance the lifestyle of their customers. i2 boasts of an impressive line of accomplishments since they were established. i2 recently won 3 awards at the annual Nokia NWA conference. i2 Egypt and i2 Tunisia were recipients of the ‘Best Product Availability’ award i2 Senegal won the ‘Best Retail Initiatve’ award and in early 2007 i2 was awarded the Fastest Growing Company in KSA. i2 exhibited at GITEX for the second straight year in September. GITEX the region’s most prominent retail event for consumer technology gave i2 a platform for an opportunity to share its wide range of products with consumers from around the world. Additionally i2 the largest first mobile phone provider in the region is working towards acquiring the first Mobile Virtual Network perator (MVN) license in the Middle East and Africa.

The other four: Faye Mandaric Storrie McKay
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 29, 2007
Joined Portsmouth in August 2003 for £1. 5 million and became an integral part of Redknapp’s squad. ne of several players to leave Fratton Park after Redknapp’s departure in 2004 joining Newcastle for £2 million the following January.

How Harry Redknapp went to extremes to capture signature of Amdy Faye
Times nline – Nov 29, 2007
But then there was fiercecompetition for the man dubbed “the next Patrick Vieira”. Born in Dakar Faye was on AS Monaco’s books before moving to Auxerre. By theend of his second season he was in the Senegal squad for the 2002 World Cupfinals although he did not play in the famous win over France. Still Fayeattracted admirers. In the summer of 2003 seven top-flight English clubs were linked with Faye. Reports surfaced that Redknapp was interested in taking him to newlypromoted Portsmouth. “He is a player I have been looking at for some time”Redknapp said.
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Bolton 1-1 Aris Salonika
BBC News – Nov 29, 2007
That change did not pay dividends for the first 20 minutes and Davies was replaced by star man Nicolas Anelka. El-Hadji Diouf was also brought on and the Senegal international’s free-kick from the left should have been headed in by Meite from six yards out – the defender leaping high above everybody but nodding wide of Chalkias’ left-hand upright. And Bolton were almost punished again for that miss when Nacho tried his luck from 40 yards only to see the backtracking Jaaskelainen palm over. Aris looked comfortable with the balls of desperation flung in by Bolton until less than a minute from full-time when the defence missed Alonso’s floated cross from the right and Stelios as calm as you like stretched to give Bolton a cherished equaliser. Megson’s men now travel to Red Star Belgrade needing victory to guarantee a spot in the next round of the Uefa Cup. Bolton boss Gary Megson:”The overall performance was poor.
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Guard gets wish gives Robert Morris international flavor
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Nov 29, 2007
htm –>Guard gets wish gives Robert Morris international flavorThursday November 29 2007By Paul Meyer Pittsburgh Post-GazetteFlorida International University’s basketball team is just that — international in makeup. The Miami-based Golden Panthers feature players from Serbia Cameroon Canada Puerto Rico and Senegal. Not to be outdone Robert Morris which visits Florida International tonight has an international makeup to its team too. The Colonials have a player from Angola.