Abdoulaye Wade

On 22 June President Abdoulaye Wade – officially 84 but probably nearer 90 – was about to propose a constitutional amendment to secure a guaranteed third term in February’s elections and a legal means to leave the presidency to his son Karim if he dies in office...

Despite a growing sense that he is losing his political touch President Abdoulaye Wade is determined to stand in February’s presidential election people close to him have told Africa Confidential...

President Abdoulaye Wade warmly welcomed Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s victory at the polls...

Missing Moammar Four African Presidents attended the celebrations – Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Guinea's new President Alpha Condé President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade – along with African Union Commission President Jean Ping...

Ould Abdel Aziz is nurturing relations with his Senegalese neighbour President Abdoulaye Wade another partisan of Ouattara...

Of the seven leaders present four had credible electoral mandates: Ghana’s John Atta Mills Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Mali’s Amani Toumani Touré and Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade...

He was a legal advisor to President Abdoulaye Wade in 2000-02 then Minister of Housing (2002-03) Mines (2003-08) and Justice (2008-09)...

He publicly fulminated about an open meeting between Ouattara and Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade on 11 November after the first round of voting...

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...

He compares himself to Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade who finally won a presidential election after 40 years of opposition politics...