Vol 55 No 2 | SENEGAL An early test 24th January 2014 Local elections will show whether Macky Sall’s party can stand on its own. He must deliver on his promises to improve water and power supplies Scheduled for 29 June, the local elections will be the first popularity test for President Macky Sall’s government since his election in March 2012. The mayor’s job is ...
Vol 54 No 25 | SENEGAL Sall struggles to stay on course 6th December 2013 The President needs big ideas to win elections and keep the faith of his allies, and turn around a sluggish economy. Yet he has been losing friends and momentum President Macky Sall arrived in Paris on 4 December for the African security summit with a diminished entourage. Although he brought a full complement of ministers and soldiers, hi...
Vol 54 No 21 | SENEGAL Shaky Sall seeks solace 8th October 2013 The President has been enacting bold reforms and wiping out the Wade legacy of impunity – but the public wants action on more basic matters Critical decisions over the future of legal action against Karim Wade are expected within days in Dakar, as Senegal’s anti-corruption court, the Cour de répression de ...
Vol 54 No 14 | SENEGAL Presidential wobbles 5th July 2013 The Obama visit was a welcome distraction for an increasingly shaky President Macky Sall, who is finding political support hard to maintain President Macky Sall needs money. On his recent travels to Qatar, Gabon and Northern Ireland, where he attended the Group of Eight Summit in June as head of the New Partnership for...
Vol 54 No 14 | SENEGAL The gay elephant 5th July 2013 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 th...
Vol 54 No 9 | SENEGAL Clean sweep slows down 26th April 2013 President Macky Sall is under fire as he casts about for an alliance to meet the coming electoral challenges 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. Sall made many election pro...
Vol 54 No 9 | SENEGAL Ex-Dauphin in the dock 26th April 2013 Late in the evening of 17 April, Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade and ex-Minister for International Cooperation, Infrastructure, Air Transport and Energy, was ta...
Vol 54 No 2 | SENEGAL Wade’s barons under scrutiny 18th January 2013 Those who said new President Sall was too compromised to go after crooks from Wade’s time in office have been proved wrong The novelty of being invited at all times of the day and night to turn up at the Gendarmerie in Colobane wore off long ago for former ministers and other senior figures from the Pa...
Vol 53 No 14 | SENEGAL Selected heads roll 6th July 2012 After Macky Sall’s presidential victory, the judiciary are targetting many of his predecessor’s business and religious friends No witch-hunt. 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. Now he hopes he has extended his po...
Vol 53 No 7 | SENEGAL Senegal ousts Wade 30th March 2012 Dakar’s streets were just as joyful as those of Bamako at the fall of their long-term leader, although Senegalese were relieved that the agent of change was electoral and peaceful....