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Macky Sall

Date of Birth: 11 December 1961
Place of Birth: Fatick, Senegal


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At each other's throats

But results from rural areas and provincial towns will be a crucial pointer to the political prospects of President Macky Sall and his ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition...

And popular anger in Dakar boiled over into riots when last March Sonko the charismatic leader of the Pastef Les Patriotes party was charged with rape and threatening behaviour (AC Vol 62 No 6 Macky Sall buys some time)...


Oil-sharing deal fires up row

Earlier Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and Senegal's Macky Sall had discreetly signed the revenue-sharing agreement for the zone established in 1993...


Macron pushes the EU into Africa

On 19 December Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and Senegal's President Macky Sall the present and next holders of the AU presidency respectively joined Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels for talks with European Council President Charles Michel to lay the groundwork for an Africa-Europe summit on 17-18 February...


Cancelling the opposition

She has worked as an adviser to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and is a friend of Senegal's President Macky Sall...


High expectations of HH

On 27 September Blair flew in a top-of-the-range 16-seat Falcon 7X business jet chartered from Volkswagen Air Services a subsidiary of the German car-maker to Dakar where he met President Macky Sall before flying on the 28th to Lilongwe where he met President Lazarus Chakwera...


Doublethink in Ecowas

In Senegal the speculation about President Macky Sall's ambitions for a third term – which would directly contravene the promised two-term limit that was at the heart of his original election victory back in 2012 – was a major driver behind a wave of rioting in February and March this year...


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Hopes for new initiatives on debt and finance at Africa summit hosted by Paris

They include South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Senegal's Macky Sall Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde Mozambique's Filipe Nyusi and Angola's João Lourenço together with three prime ministers: Spain's Pedro Sanchez Italy's Mario Draghi and Portugal's António Costa (AC Vol 62 No 4 France holds tight in the Sahel & Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

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