After two weeks of protest and the most violent clashes between demonstrators and the security forces seen in decades leaving at least 10 dead and 600 injured the government of President Macky Sall and supporters of his prime opponent Ousmane Sonko have retreated into an uneasy calm...
In January 2019 – a month before polling day – the article published on the Modern Ghana website claimed the anti-establishment candidate Ousmane Sonko had received $195 000 from Tullow Oil in return for political favours...
Another headache is the charismatic anti-corruption campaigner Ousmane Sonko who is outflanking the PS on left...
During the recent presidential election campaign pro-Sall propagandists falsely accused Tullow of offering opposition presidential candidate Ousmane Sonko cash in exchange for oil concessions in the event of his election (AC Vol 60 No 4 Sall campaign 'fakes news')...
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Veteran politician Idrissa Seck came a poor second with 21% and radical challenger Ousmane Sonko came third with 16%...
International attention and momentum lies with Ousmane Sonko the former tax inspector and parliamentarian who launched a political party Les patriotes du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) after being sacked from the civil service for making public allegations of corruption (AC Vol 59 No 23 A well-oiled machine)...
The article accused Ousmane Sonko a presidential candidate and anti-resource corruption campaigner who is a favourite among Senegal's youth of receiving money from Tullow Oil in return for oil contracts should he be elected...
The article accused Ousmane Sonko a presidential candidate and anti-resource corruption campaigner who is a favourite among Senegal's youth of receiving money from Tullow Oil in return for oil contracts should he be elected...
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He has the advantage of incumbency in a much-reduced field of candidates following the publication of the Constitutional Council's 3 January decision to accept just five: the incumbent; former president Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim Wade; the rising opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko; Dakar's jailed former mayor Khalifa Sall; and the virtually unknown Issa Sall who leads the University of the Sahel (AC Vol 58 No 16 Who loves ya BBY...
Ousmane Sonko a former tax inspector and leader of the Patriote du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité' (Pastef) party has won a substantial following by chronicling the scandals in a book released in May 2017 much of which focuses on the Petro-Tim affair...
' Sall clears the road to re-election Ousmane Sonko's incendiary book has certainly provoked debate but will not be enough to propel him and his Patriote du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité party into the presidential palace at next February's polls be it the colonial building currently in use in Dakar or the one President Sall is reportedly planning to build at a cost of 100 billion CFA francs (US$175 million) in Diamniadio Dakar's new satellite city...
An open letter from opposition politicians Abdoul Mbaye and Ousmane Sonko last August accused the government of corruption and of gifting the blocks to Timis (AC Vol 57 No 24 Timis's seam of woe )...