INDUSTRY

Senegal is one of the most industrialized countries of Africa.Many prestigious multinationals are established there and one manufactures there of all!
Valdafrique manufactures the famous pastilles Valda, Colgate-Palmolive produces several marks of toothpaste, soap and detergent.All the large automobile marks have one or more dealers there.Hollywood has a factory of chewings-gum there.Nestle manufactures there its coffee, its chocolate or its condensed milk.Rhône-Poulenc produced there of many drugs.
The Coke Company employs several hundreds of people for its drinks (via the factory of the SOBOA):Coke Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Schweppes, etc…In several countries of Africa certain marks of cigarettes are exported are on the spot manufactured:Marlboro, Craven A, Peter Stuyvesant.... and of the marks sénégalaises such as Excellence have much success.

The phosphates of Thiès do of Senegal one of the first exporters of this raw material in spite of the financial difficulties of the ICS.Thecubic ones of Maggi are bought by all the housewives and are an essential ingredient.Total, Shell and Mobil share the innumerable blazing-new service stations of the country.

Other quite as known multinationals make it possible to the Senegaleses to have products of quality at a price quite lower than the imported products.National and private companies show at which point the investment was significant these last years:
Piles, mattress, batteries, books, pens, matches, agro-alimentary (yoghourts, biscuits, preserves etc…), pieces of furniture, oil, upkeeping products (detergents, wax, acids…), plasturgie (bags, toys, containers…), textile (fibre harvest and spinning such as cotton, factories textile, ready to carry, curtains…), glazieries, printing works, refineries, metallurgy, cement factories, sugar industry (in Richard Toll close to the cultures of cane with sugar), pharmaceutical product (two factories in addition to Rhône-Poulenc make it possible to the Senegaleses to have drug of high quality at a price the Large mills of Dakar which make flours of corn (imported obviously) and corn and the construction trades and public works which have made for several years an enormous building work.

It is in the peninsula of the Cape Vert that are established the majority of these companies:
86% of industries are concentrated there.Nevertheless, some examples of successful delocalizations are encouraging:machine of pile with Thiès, treatment plants of cotton with Vélingara or Kédougou, oil refineries with Kaolack or Ziguinchor, treatment plant of sugar with Richard Toll, etc…

Senegalese economy by sector

The primary sector (14,7 % of the GDP)

Agriculture recorded a rise of 12,2 % in 2005, thanks to a good crop year.But as a whole, its growth rate is dubious by the agricultural production, dominated by groundnut and the cereals (millet), se runs up against the constraints related on the climatic risks and the reorganizations of the distribution systems.And if it continues to occupy the majority of the working population sénégalaise, its disaffection is constant, even if if today, of the still timid efforts are made on the market gardenings of export.Fishing, primarily artisanal, has also known a fall of its outputs for several years because of a reduction in the halieutic resource.

The secondary industry (21,7 % of the GDP)

The inflationary tensions of the oil market were unfavourable with the secondary industry.Its growth is estimated at 4,2 % in 2005 against 6,2 % in 2004.The extraction of the natural resources constitutes the most significant side of the secondary industry, with in particular of phosphates:1,5 million tons of phosphates are produced and transformed each year
Agroalimentary industry represents a significant share of industrial fabric in term of sales turnover.With its oil mills, the units of dehusking of groundnuts and rice, sugar refineries, canning facilities industrial, factories of transformation of the products of the sea and brewery, it cuts a significant share.Many products for human consumption are also produced on the spot such as packing, the perfumes and the cosmetics.In the field of construction, the investments of the diaspora support the activity of the BTP and the production of cement (more than 2 million tons per annum).

The tertiary sector (63,6 % of the GDP)

Depuis more than one ten years, the sector knows a true clearing.It records a rise of 5,5 % in 2005, thanks to telecommunications.The very good infrastructures generated many investments in the TVS services (center of call) and the Internet.As regards tourism, Senegal entered the group of head of the African countries receiving from the thousands of tourists.Nearly 700 000 for the year 2006, according to the figures of the government.In spite of its potential, the sector has some problems

Tourism

Tourism of mass truly began with the installation from the Med Club in the Cape Skirring.{mosimage} It acted before of some curious discovering lately independent Africa.Since, Senegal entered the group of head of the African countries receiving from the tourists after Egypt, Morocco and Kenya.
The number of hotels and international hotel groups exploded in twenty years.But parallel tourism showed a rise not less significant.Tourism being addressed mainly to young people in search of authenticity, but also of sport, peace and culture.The famous Rural Campings Integrated in Casamance or the tourist campings, which are true lodgings, are addressed to them.Whole "villages" were created around tourism.It is the case of Cape Skirring, Nianing or Saly.

The hinged plate and the economic center that is Dakar bring also a great quantity of Western and African tourists of business.Moreover, of many French live in Senegal and one sees each summer arriving of the members their family.Lastly, the Senegaleses expatriés or studying abroad, if their incomes allow it, turn over on holiday to the country as often as possible.

Today tourism constitutes the second resource of the country after fishing with 112 billion CFA of receipts in 2003 and 98 billion CFA in 2002.However, since 2001, the number of tourists does not cease dropping or stagnating.The total situation of the sector became indeed alarming:a great number of hotels or inns is on sale and several stopped their exploitation while waiting for a possible clearing.The whole of the hotel frequentation fell in a vertiginous way because of manifestly known incompetence of a minister of depressing tourism.Each decision taken these three last years was a new blow carried to the sector.

Le Senegal is not any more the country which one recommended formerly.Price of the plane tickets leaded by iniquitous taxes (more 160€ of taxes, a world record), interminable hours of road to leave Dakar, insecurity urban in constant rise, devastating economic insecurity, arbitrary and unexpected decisions of a blind ministry, promotion of tourism carried out by assholes left one does not know where:the result is eloquent.The tourist job loss in Senegal between 2001 and 2007 would be of more than 40%…Tourist cities as Foundiougne in Saloum vegetate from now on because of roads which seem to have undergone massive bombardments and Saint-Louis, classified world inheritance of Humanity lives in tourist stagnation.
Today, a great number of tourists prefer to be directed towards destinations like the Benign one:the plane tickets are less expensive there, the country is cleaner, the more beautiful beaches, the less expensive hotels, the richer gastronomy and the inheritance historical, cultural and architectural more interesting…The potentialities of Senegal remain however significant and a plan of recovery of tourism carried out by qualified people can regild this paramount sector for the economy sénégalaise.

The Natural Richnesses

Senegal is unfortunately rather poor in this field.The principal resource comes from the phosphates of which he is the tenth world producer with 1800000 tonnes/an (phosphate of calcium with Taïba and aluminium phosphate close to Thiès).The essence of the production is repurchased by an Indian phosphate producer wishing to control the market price.

The financial difficulties of the Chemical Industries Sénégalaises (ICS) exploiting this resource put in danger all the sector.The prospections showed the presence of gold in Eastern Senegal but for the moment not large-thing is not exploited.
Only some gold washers seek invaluable yellow metal in the Falémé river.A little marble (career of Abel, close to Kédougou producing a beautiful green marble) and iron also bring some richnesses.An offshore oil rig oil reservoir was detected with broad of the Sénégalo-bissau-guinéenne border.A judgement before the commission of UNO in allotted a large part to Senegal very recently.But the quality of this oil being bad, the prospects for extraction are for the moment rather fuzzy and no investor is on the blow.

The gold of the Sabodala sector

la discovered first indices goes up with the work of Gravensteijn (1962) relayed by the UNDP (1963 - 1964) the detailed study will be undertaken by the Soviet Sénégalo mission (1971/73) then supplemented by the BRGM (1975/83, 1991/92) This work led to the description of a gold layer says Projet of Sabodala.The exploitable reserves are estimated at approximately 30 tons of gold.In the surroundings of this principal layer several gold anomalies were inventoried of which most significant are:
• Sabodala - village:2 km in the South, in a structure similar to that of a principal layer;
• Kérékounda, small lodging located at 3, 5 km in the south East of Sabodala.Except these layers, other gold bearing zones were highlighted in the sector:
• Goulouma, to 5 km in the South East or of the trenches recutting of the quartz seams gave convincing results being able to justify the continuation of research on an objective of 16 T in an oxidized ore.
• Kobokoto, to 7 km in the south of Sabodala, where the mineralisation carried by structures slickenside, continues in-depth with a supposed potential of 330 kg gold metal.

The ALLUVIAL GOLD OF The WESTERN ZONES AND IS SARAYA

This subject was studied mainly by the missions UNDP (1965/68) and Sénégalo - Soviet (1971/73).Work was concentrated on the alluvial terraces of the Falémé river and its confluences, in the Western Zones and Is Saraya.As a whole, the results are weak from a mining point of view because they show strong gold contents which can reach some g/m3 especially concentrated in the gravels in base of profile, but in general drowned in the zone of Bountou
- Massala and on its confluences (Kassaguérie, Coling and Samé) all located at the North of the Daloto zone
- Moura.

DECORATIVE STONES

Several varieties of stones of size of high value were identified in Senegal.It is of marbles, serpentinites and crystalline rock whose valorization like material of floor covering, of walls and frontages, is of great aesthetic and economic interest.

MARBLES

The marbles form significant layer in the area of Ilimalo, near Falémé and in the area of Kédougou.The layers the best known ones are:marbles of Sanigourou, Tiokoye and Wlidiala which present well in benches Nets from 100 to 200 meters and at aspect ribbon A the West of Kédougou in the Bandafassi triangle
- Ibel, the marble are of excellent quality and show good mechanical characteristics.The reserves are estimated at several million cubic meters.

SERPENTINITES

They appear in the formations panafricaines located at the South - West of Bakel in surroundings of Diabal and Gabon to 40 km of Kidira on the Kidira-Bakel track.They are mainly made up of serpentinites coming from the destabilization old ferro the - magnesian ones.Of green color to brownish and crossed generally calcite filonnets, they are very largely used like decorative stones in certain countries.The reserves are very significant.
CRYSTALLINE ROCKS
The old formations of Eastern Senegal contain many varieties of which most representative are:granites and épisyènites.

IRON
(MIFERSO)
The iron layer of Falémé is one of largest paléo - proterozoïc of African Western Craton.It is composed of several clusters which when they level, consist of a faded ore enriched out of pot
and iron hydroxide.The reserves of the three principal mineral-bearing bodies Kérakéné and Kouroudiako are estimated at 350 000 000 of tons of an average content of 63%.

However, the presence of many other clusters makes it possible to affirm that the reserves are very largely higher than tonnage already certified necessary to the establishment of the feasibility study.These additional ore reserves rise with nearly 350 million tons of magnetite and 100 million tons of hematite.For the valorization of this significant potential, Senegal created the Company of the Iron Mines of Senegal Oriental (MIFERSO).It is in charge of the development of the iron layers of Falémé located at the extreme southern zone - Is of Senegal and account four shareholders of which the State of Senegal which holds 28%.

THE MINING PROJECT

L' mining proposes to produce 12 million tons per annum of commercial ore of very high quality divided out of ore of pieces (lump ore) 50% of the production and into fine ore (Sinter) 50%.The Senegalese Government and the private Shareholders of MIFERSO made carry out the wobbly file to allow a more exact presentation of the project.This technico-economic document made it possible to undertake actions for the identification of technical partner and financier interested:
• with an acquisition of a holding in the increase in the capital which will be open;
• with the financing or the participation in the financing of one or several components of the project;
• with the purchase of ore within the framework of long-term contracts in refunding of the loans;
• net present value with 12%:113,2 US dollars million;
• internal rate of profitability:16,9%;