Former President Macky Sall leads the new opposition coalition Takku Wallu Sénégal...
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Macky Sall whose chosen successor Amadou Ba was decisively beaten by Faye in March had broadened his Takku Wallu coalition to bring in the Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS) led by former President Abdoulaye Wade and his son Karim Wade and Idrissa Seck's Rewmi party...
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Vol 65 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The French supermarket brand Auchan – which did not arrive in Senegal until 2014 decades after the end of colonialism – was a prime target during the recent years of protest against former president Macky Sall: 39 of its shops were looted destruction that cost 300 jobs for local people...
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The crunch came with a breakdown in relations between the confrontational Sonko and the outgoing legislative majority loyal to former head of state Macky Sall and his Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...
Former president Macky Sall – now operating from Marrakech – had clearly been expecting the dissolution and on 3 September he made a farewell address to his parliamentary supporters...
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Faye appears to have outmanoeuvred BBY led by former president Macky Sall who had said they were working on draft legislation aimed at preventing the president from being able to dissolve parliament...
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In contrast his opponents in the Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition led by Macky Sall who was president until earlier this year are only just short of an overall majority on 82 with three years of the current National Assembly still to run...
Criticism of Macky Sall-era cronyism corruption and politicisation was for years a staple of Pastef rhetoric...
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Ministers say that they want to reclaim US$60 million in tax debts which had been written off by Faye's predecessor Macky Sall's government...
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Kenyan activists are comparing their movement to the protests in Senegal that saw former President Macky Sall's party defeated in elections by Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko both in their forties...
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko hosting the veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Dakar launched a diatribe against France and the EU complaining that they failed to speak out against former President Macky Sall's crackdown on dissent (AC Vol 65 No 4 Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem)...
The Commission tabled visa restrictions on Senegal in November 2022 after little progress in talks on returns with former President Macky Sall's government...