Vol 54 No 14 | SENEGAL Presidential wobbles 5th July 2013 The Obama visit was a welcome distraction for an increasingly shaky President Macky Sall, who is finding political support hard to maintain President Macky Sall needs money. On his recent travels to Qatar, Gabon and Northern Ireland, where he attended the Group of Eight Summit in June as head of...
Vol 54 No 14 | SENEGAL The gay elephant 5th July 2013 Homosexuality is illegal and subject to aggressive public hostility in Senegal, and with the United States having so recently legally enabled gay marriage, it was an elephant in...
Vol 54 No 9 | SENEGAL Clean sweep slows down 26th April 2013 President Macky Sall is under fire as he casts about for an alliance to meet the coming electoral challenges The 65% of the vote which carried President Macky Sall to victory over Abdoulaye Wade in March last year was always about who he wasn’t, not who he...
Vol 54 No 9 | SENEGAL Ex-Dauphin in the dock 26th April 2013 Late in the evening of 17 April, Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade and ex-Minister for International Cooperation, Infrastructure, Air Transport and Energy, was taken...
Vol 54 No 2 | SENEGAL Wade’s barons under scrutiny 18th January 2013 Those who said new President Sall was too compromised to go after crooks from Wade’s time in office have been proved wrong The novelty of being invited at all times of the day and night to turn up at the Gendarmerie in Colobane wore off long ago for former ministers...
Vol 53 No 14 | SENEGAL Selected heads roll 6th July 2012 After Macky Sall’s presidential victory, the judiciary are targetting many of his predecessor’s business and religious friends No witch-hunt. That was Macky Sall’s message after he won a resounding mandate with two-thirds of the vote in the presidential run-off in March. Now he hopes he...
Vol 53 No 7 | SENEGAL Senegal ousts Wade 30th March 2012 Dakar’s streets were just as joyful as those of Bamako at the fall of their long-term leader, although Senegalese were relieved that the agent of change was electoral...
Vol 53 No 7 | CHADSENEGAL Habre hangs on 30th March 2012 Macky Sall’s election as President of Senegal has caused many to wonder if Chad’s ex-President Hissène Habré will still be welcome.
Vol 53 No 5 | SENEGAL Wade poll shock 2nd March 2012 President Abdoulaye Wade’s failed to clear the 50% hurdle in the first round of the presidential election on 26 February and must slug it out again on 18...
Vol 53 No 4 | SENEGAL Wade rallies 17th February 2012 After looking distinctly lacklustre in recent weeks, President Abdoulaye Wade’s prospects for re-election have brightened considerably while the opposition looks divided and riot police keep the streets on...