Macky Sall

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...

Tables turnedToday's crisis is a turning of the tables for Macky Sall who nine years ago was himself the popular opposition challenger defeating President Abdoulaye Wade who had super-promoted his son Karim and then fudged the rules to run for a third term...

The MFDC sent statements to newspapers in both Senegal and Guinea Bissau calling the offensive President 'Macky Sall's mad adventure' and vowing revenge...

Senegal's President Macky Sall persuaded fellow Ecowas leaders to soften the sanctions and allow in food fuel and medicine to protect the wellbeing of ordinary Malians and sustain the twin campaigns against jihadist terrorism and Covid-19...

It contrasts with Senegal where President Macky Sall's administration has sharply boosted funding on rural development...

On 23 July a procession of regional heads of state gathered in Bamako: President Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger) Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and Macky Sall (Senegal)...

An article smearing President Macky Sall's radical opponent in last year's presidential election may have been the work of one the country's most influential investigative journalists Baba Aidara according to a BBC World Service documentary on 14 June...

President Macky Sall is determined on a campaign of strict controls to get a grip on the pandemic and is sending out a strong message...

Maada Bio's government could also be wary of the ongoing impact of a major scandal in Senegal involving Timis's obtaining of gas field licences for his company PetroTim and his close relationship with Senegalese President Macky Sall's brother Aliou...

Oumar Sarr whom Wade dismissed as Deputy General Secretary as punishment for joining President Macky Sall's national dialogue talks in May leads a growing dissident faction (AC Vol 55 No 4 Hunt loses momentum)...

There has been speculation that President Macky Sall might grant a pardon to Khalifa but that's unlikely so long as he presents a potential electoral threat...

Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...