President Macky Sall needs money...
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 the room where President Macky Sall met US President Barack Obama...
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 was...
Among the first to notice was Fatim Bâ Senghor Macky Sall's long-serving assistant...
President Macky Sall had been a cheerleader for Wade on his road to the presidency and was the longest-serving of his six prime ministers in 2004-07...
Vol 53 No 21 |
- WEST AFRICA
Ghana is preparing for elections on 7 December and Senegal’s President Macky Sall says his army is over stretched...
Some think Wade was aiming to embarrass his successor Macky Sall...
In the absence of official explanations visiting heads of state such as Senegal’s President Macky Sall were left to extend wishes for his speedy recovery...
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...
In the event he accepted defeat graciously telephoning Macky Sall to congratulate him as Abdou Diouf had done for him twelve years before...
Vol 53 No 7 |
- CHAD
- SENEGAL
Macky Sall’s election as President of Senegal has caused many to wonder if Chad’s ex-President Hissène Habré will still be welcome...