The News Review:

- Senegal polls deliver blow to president and son
- * Exploring for more viable gold deposits in Senegal
- afdb undertakes 17 projects in Senegal
- New Senegal gold mine starts production
- Africa: Why Players Lie About Their Age

Senegal polls deliver blow to president and son
Reuters
Incomplete results from Sunday’s election on local media showed Wade’s ruling SPI coalition lost control of the council in the capital Dakar and other key cities in the West African country such as St Louis and Louga. The elections were widely seen as a referendum on the 82-year-old Wade’s government and widespread expectation that his son Karim will stand when his father’s second and final term ends in 2012. Senegal has long been seen as a rare democracy in the region but Wade’s critics say his rule has been increasingly authoritarian. Meanwhile social pressures have increased due to rising prices and the global economic slowdown. Wade’s son already a presidential adviser and head of a powerful state agency was almost guaranteed his first elected position as a member of Dakar council but without a majority the ruling coalition’s influence will be limited. The partial results indicated the opposition coalition Benno Siggil Senegaal (United to put right Senegal) would win enough seats to be able to name the capital’s mayor. "The Senegalese have rejected the policy pursued until now by the presidential camp" said Benno Siggil Senegaal spokesman Serigne Mbaye Thiam.

* Exploring for more viable gold deposits in Senegal
guardian.co.uk
The firm expects to produce 160000 ounces of gold at itsSabodala mine this year output which would be worth $152million at current prices of around $950 per ounce on worldmarkets. Some production is hedged at $846 per ounce ManagingDirector Jeffrey Williams told Reuters at the mine about 800 km(500 miles) southeast of the seaside capital Dakar. High prices and a strong outlook for gold one of the mainbeneficiaries of investors’ search for safe assets areencouraging miners across the world to look for deposits. Costs of production at Sabodala are around $450 per ounceWilliams said.
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afdb undertakes 17 projects in Senegal
Le Mali en ligne
H’Midouche four of the eight community-based projects are in the rural sector and the other four on water and sanitation (2) and on social are as (2). The projects include those on the small-scale irrigation in the region of Fatick.

New Senegal gold mine starts production
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
com) ? Australian-miner Mineral Deposits Limited (MDL) has started gold production at its Sabodala plant in Senegal this week with the pouring of the first gold dore bars the firm announced on Thursday. In just under four years MDL progressed from the initial drill hole to first production. The company expects to produce 160 000 oz of gold by the end of 2009. MDL reported that the Sabodala plant had commissioned smoothly and that it as already operating above nameplate capacity. The plant would begin operating on the normal run-of-mine ore which was currently stockpiled.

Africa: Why Players Lie About Their Age
AllAfrica.com
Cheating is evil regardless of its form or volume – everywhere you go whatever you do there is some form of cheating in all walks of life but my concern here is about African football players and what has now become to be their ‘age-syndrome’. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );It is no secret that African teams particularly the youth teams are often believed to be full of overage players-age scandals have rocked several West African countries mostly Ghana Nigeria and Senegal in the past. But the problem is not only confined to West African players or countries but it rather cuts across the entire African face and beyond. ur region and Rwanda in particular is no exception when it comes to players lying about their age-actually this topic because of its sensitivity is capable of generating an argument that can last a year non-stop. In 2003 the Kenyan Sports Minister took a bold step when he disbanded all Kenyan international teams after claiming that at least two members of their U-17 team had falsified their ages. In Rwanda the topic has been raging on for years-in fact I can bet you that in every four people discussing local football wherever they may be the issue of players lying about their age never misses on the agenda.