Abdoulaye Wade

Sindiély Wade daughter of President Abdoulaye Wade chose to compete in the Paris-Dakar rally the one year the rally came nowhere near the Senegalese capital...

Optimism in Senegal has dissipated as President Abdoulaye Wade's diplomatic skills have proved unequal to the Ivorian crisis...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) had been hoping that a Senegalese battalion currently on exercises with the United States would form the backbone of the force but President Abdoulaye Wade said on 30 October that Senegal saw no need to send more than 250 troops...

In 2001 at the African Union summit in Zambia Gabonese President Omar Bongo (Sassou's son-in-law and a Bateke like Lopes) had got French-speaking African leaders including Diouf's successor Abdoulaye Wade to sign up for Lopes...

Senegal where Habré has lived since Déby overthrew him in 1990 would not oppose a Belgian extradition request despite pressure on President Abdoulaye Wade from old-guard Francophone leaders...

Last year Diouf's prospects were undermined by the frank reluctance of President Abdoulaye Wade to back his predecessor...

The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...

A string of impressive polls started with Abdoulaye Wade's unexpected victory in Senegal in March 2000...

Still much of the world rejoiced with President Abdoulaye Wade that Senegal had 'entered the era of the Senegal that wins in the ballot boxes and on the sports field...

NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...