The article accused Ousmane Sonko a presidential candidate and anti-resource corruption campaigner who is a favourite among Senegal's youth of receiving money from Tullow Oil in return for oil contracts should he be elected...
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He has the advantage of incumbency in a much-reduced field of candidates following the publication of the Constitutional Council's 3 January decision to accept just five: the incumbent; former president Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim Wade; the rising opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko; Dakar's jailed former mayor Khalifa Sall; and the virtually unknown Issa Sall who leads the University of the Sahel (AC Vol 58 No 16 Who loves ya BBY...
Ousmane Sonko a former tax inspector and leader of the Patriote du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité' (Pastef) party has won a substantial following by chronicling the scandals in a book released in May 2017 much of which focuses on the Petro-Tim affair...
' Sall clears the road to re-election Ousmane Sonko's incendiary book has certainly provoked debate but will not be enough to propel him and his Patriote du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité party into the presidential palace at next February's polls be it the colonial building currently in use in Dakar or the one President Sall is reportedly planning to build at a cost of 100 billion CFA francs (US$175 million) in Diamniadio Dakar's new satellite city...
An open letter from opposition politicians Abdoul Mbaye and Ousmane Sonko last August accused the government of corruption and of gifting the blocks to Timis (AC Vol 57 No 24 Timis's seam of woe )...
Timis's acquisition of the St-Louis and Cayar Offshore blocks became the focus of a scandal which broke in Dakar last August when opposition politicians Abdoul Mbaye and Ousmane Sonko wrote an open letter accusing the government of corruption in the oil and gas sector (AC Vol 57 No 24 Timis's seam of woe)...
Two politicians Abdoul Mbaye and Ousmane Sonko wrote an open letter in August claiming there was corruption in the oil and gas sector...