Abdou Diouf

He has brought in Assane Diop a former minister under President Abdou Diouf and a high-level functionary in international and United Nations bodies to advise on healthcare...

Weeks after his election he set up the CREI which carried strong echoes of another legal body set up by former President Abdou Diouf in 1981...

In the event he accepted defeat graciously telephoning Macky Sall to congratulate him as Abdou Diouf had done for him twelve years before...

Ever since he has proved untouchable under Abdoulaye Wade and his predecessor Abdou Diouf (AC Vol 42 No 22 Desert fox)...

Amidst allegations that target the government more broadly many in Dakar lament the days of the Abdou Diouf presidency when a minister might be known as 'Monsieur 10%' - the figure for 'commission' payments is much higher these days...

The remarkable thing about Wade’s speech at the inauguration was that while praising the past ‘heroes of the nation’ he made no mention of the two Presidents who preceded him Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf...

Sall is copying the strategy that Wade deployed against former President Abdou Diouf: putting public pressure on the regime by attacks in the media on the government’s handling of sensitive dossiers...

Abdoulaye Baldé a former police commissioner saw service under former President Abdou Diouf then under Abdoulaye Wade before enlisting with Karim Wade who seemed headed for supreme power...

Lawyer Aïssata Tall Sall a former Parti Socialiste Communications Minister claims Wade is testing the water hoping that if he can prolong his mandate he can later change the constitution again and pass on the succession as President Léopold Senghor did in 1980 when he picked Abdou Diouf as his successor...

This may be because President Wade considers the present head of the FAO a Senegalese bureaucrat called Jacques Diouf to be too close to Wade's predecessor Abdou Diouf (no relation)...