Karim Meïssa Wade

Sall and Seck are former prime ministers and were heirs apparent before their fall from grace: Sall for challenging presidential son Karim Wade over the Organisation of the Islamic Conference fiasco in 2008 (AC Vol 52 No 14 Refineries and rivalries) and Seck after he was accused of stealing 17 billion CFA francs (US$34...

However he was damaged by local newspaper reports that when the 23 June riots were going on he was in Paris negotiating for Karim Wade to join his ticket as vice-presidential candidate...

However under Karim Wade's Plan Takkal expensive short-term loans from banks have covered fuel supplies for the generating plant ensuring 35 days' supply and an 80-megawatt power surplus instead of a 64 MW deficit...

During the rioting on 27 June Karim Wade fearing a revolution telephoned the uncrowned king of Françafrique the lawyer Robert Bourgi pleading for French military intervention (AC Vol 52 No 13 One day son)...

During the clashes in Dakar and other towns angry crowds also set fire to buses and ransacked the home of presidential spokesman Serigne Mbacke Ndiaye a friend of presidential son Karim Wade...

Karim Wade whose ministerial portfolios include Energy said on 28 June that industrial action by workers in the Syndicat unique des travailleurs de l’électricité (Sutélec) trades union had caused a shortage of fuel for the power plant and thus the outages...

Karim Wade announced that the FSE funds had financed a contract with International Trading Oil and Commodities to buy 33 000 tonnes of diesel per month for its generators for July August and September...

The deal was signed between SBG and Karim Wade before he was Energy Minister and without any competitive bidding process a common feature of the government’s past energy deals...

Wade then fell out with Sall and sacked him making him instead President of the National Assembly a post he promptly lost when he asked Karim Wade to explain the lavish spending on Dakar’s hosting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit in 2008...

Until mid-2010 observers wondered whether Wade would stand or hand the baton to his son Karim Wade (AC Vol 51 No 15)...

All this fuels urban discontent and makes political progress harder for Karim Wade whom the public identifies with grandiose projects...

President Abdoulaye Wade’s son Karim Wade already holds the Senegalese government’s most senior position as what the Dakar press calls ‘Super-minister’ in charge of International Cooperation Air Transport and Infrastructure...

Wade’s age and his future are central issues giving an edge to debates over the role of his son Karim Wade who heads a sprawling ministry combining international cooperation regional development infrastructure and air transport (see Box Karim the successor)...

Karim Wade who once worked in a London bank was originally brought in to head an agency to build the infrastructure when Senegal hosted the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in 2008...

Power is concentrated in the hands of President Abdoulaye Wade; development strategy is led by his son Karim Wade...

The presidential succession of Karim Wade is far from a fait accompli not least because his father Abdoulaye Wade does not yet want to step down...

The lawsuit accused Badji - widely seen as a mentor to Karim Wade - President Wade and Energy Minister Samuel Sarr a financial advisor to Wade of 'acting like the notorious deadbeat who swears that the check is in the mail'...

The deal with the state-owned power plant builder is another opportunity for the Minister of International Cooperation National Planning Air Transport and Infrastructure (and presidential son) Karim Wade to showcase his talents before the 2012 elections...