The verdict is now awaited in the appeal of the Mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall against his conviction in March for misappropriating CFA1...
A new report from Amnesty International calls Khalifa Sall's original trial and conviction unfair and also criticises the conduct of the earlier corruption trial of Karim Wade...
However that is in sharp contrast to Khalifa Sall who remains hugely popular among Dakar voters and it is his case that leaves Macky most exposed to accusations of using the judicial system for political ends...
The trial of the mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall is tearing Senegal's oldest political party apart...
Khalifa Sall has been in prison for nine months on charges of embezzling nearly US$3 million in anti-poverty funds that his supporters say are trumped up...
The dissidents had met in Kaolack on 16 December calling for the dissolution of the PS secretariat which they also accusing of conspiring with BBY in bringing the case against Khalifa Sall...
Khalifa Sall's supporters say the PS must rediscover its shine reclaim its socialist identity and field its own candidate...
There are agendas: Khalifa Sall's presidential ambitions are no secret and Dieng knows that PS sinecures would vanish the minute the party left BBY...
Khalifa Sall has been drifting away from the party even winning a seat in the National Assembly for another formation Manko Taxawu Sénégal...
Yet in the most important Dakar BBY and Manko Taxawu Senegaal the alliance around President Macky Sall's challenger Khalifa Sall the Mayor of Dakar both parties are claiming victory...
BBY poured colossal resources into the campaign but the fact that Khalifa Sall was in prison helped BBY's victory...
Dakar's Mayor Khalifa Sall is in prison only because President Macky Sall fears his growing challenge to his power say his supporters...
Dieng was defeated as PS presidential candidate in 2007 and 2012 and Khalifa Sall believes he has a better chance...
In order to prevail Khalifa Sall would need the PDS and other major players such as the Rewmi ('Country') party of Idrissa Seck the Mayor of Thiès (AC Vol 57 No 14 Mercy and Machiavelli)...
Supporters of the charismatic and popular PS Mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall feel this reform is being applied to the capital and its suburbs in a manner that deliberately undermines him because he is potentially Macky's strongest challenger in the 2019 presidential poll...
One likely adversary in a stiff presidential election battle is the ever- popular Mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall...
The other two front-runners for the presidency a recent poll suggested were the incumbent and Khalifa Sall the popular Mayor of Dakar...
Khalifa Sall is Mayor of Dakar after a bruising campaign against ex-Premier Touré...
Touré who once seemed to carry all before her failed even to dent the following of the popular Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall (AC Vol 50 No 8 Une affaire de famille)...
The APR would like that of Dakar probably pitting former Interior Minister Mbaye Ndiaye against the PS incumbent Khalifa Sall (AC Vol 50 No 8)...