) Baldé was formerly a senior police official and worked in the office of ex-President Abdou Diouf...
He served at the heart of the presidency during the tenure of ex-President Abdou Diouf (1981-2000)...
In 2000 Wade's victory against incumbent President Abdou Diouf was assisted by the media and civic organisations' energetic use of mobile phones internet cafés and local FM stations to monitor the count and expose malpractice...
Absolute Wade Wade swept to power in 2000 defeating former President Abdou Diouf and ending 40 years of Parti Socialiste (PS) rule...
Togo was quickly suspended from the Francophonie whose Secretary-General Senegalese former President Abdou Diouf has been seeking a more overt political role for the organisation...
Since his triumphant defeat of Abdou Diouf in 2000 President Wade has made his way through six governments four prime ministers three government secretaries general and 126 ministers...
Vol 44 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
In Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade is opening up a stagnant economy run by a tight-knit business network close to his predecessor Abdou Diouf...
Vol 43 No 21 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf struggled to become Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) in Beirut on 20 October...
Momentum is gathering behind Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf to become next Secretary General of La Francophonie as Congo-Brazzaville tries to invigorate the campaign of its nominee writer Henri Lopes...
His companion was the Bank's new Kenya Country Director Makhtar Diop a reform-minded Finance Minister under Senegal's President Abdou Diouf who was hired by the Bank after Diouf's election 2000 defeat in the hope that his African political experience might improve results...