Abdoulaye Wade

France's President Jacques Chirac hosted 13 African leaders in Paris on 8 February; British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo John Kufuor Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Abdoulaye Wade on his 6-10 February whirl through Nigeria Ghana Sierra Leone and Senegal; United States President George W...

The New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) which will be the main focus of Blair's bilateral talks with Obasanjo Ghana's President John Kufuor Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is at last getting some political momentum behind it...

Those who disagree with him include (sotto voce) a few cabinet ministers and ANC leaders; this month ex-President Nelson Mandela said it was the duty of African leaders to spearhead AIDS campaigns as pioneered by Presidents Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Festus Mogae of Botswana...

In April President Abdoulaye Wade announced that he had asked Habré to leave and his victims fearing Habré would move out of the reach of an extradition request appealed to the United Nations Committee Against Torture...

Bush had already met Ghana's John Kufuor Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Mali's Alpha Oumar Konaré and was due to endorse reform at a lunch with leaders of other developing world democracies during the United Nations General Assembly at which the Presidents of Benin Botswana and Madagascar were to form the African contingent...

After Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade suggested late last month that Belgium should extradite Habré senior figures in the ruling Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais noticeably stepped up their campaign to change the constitution to keep Gnassingbé Eyadéma at the helm after 2003...

President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has proposed that the African Union (AU) should organise a conference on terrorism...

Amid the wreckage of earlier plans the new big idea is to merge two more: the free-market free-trade Millennium Africa Plan (MAP) sponsored by Algeria Nigeria and South Africa with the dirigiste Omega Plan dreamed up mainly by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade...

Theoretically there's still time for him to run but his Dakar successor President Abdoulaye Wade insists (in private) he will not accord him the required national nomination...

Kufuor's first major international outing since taking over on 7 January demonstrated the President's confidence in his government's grip on events back home and his rapid elevation to the clique of African reforming leaders that includes Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade...