Vol 65 No 3 | SENEGAL A crowded field 1st February 2024 Now definitively excluded from the presidential race, the imprisoned Ousmane Sonko waits to learn whether his stand-in, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, will be allowed out of jail to campai...
Vol 65 No 1 | SENEGAL Sonko's long walk to the ballot box 3rd January 2024 The leading oppositionist could still be barred from running in next month's presidential elections The suspense continues. On 5 January, the Constitutional Court will rule on statements from 13 parliamentarians in support of the presidential candidacy of Ousmane Sonko, leader of...
Vol 64 No 19 | SENEGAL Sall's 'safe choice' hits turbulence 21st September 2023 After President Macky Sall announced in July that he would not seek a third term, 11 contenders for the presidential nomination of his Alliance Pour la République (APR) and ...
Vol 64 No 19 | SENEGAL Seck seeks DC clout 21st September 2023 Former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck has beefed up his international lobbying and campaign team by hiring Bruce Fryer, a US advisor for the non-profit Vanguard Africa and Future Pact...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 17 | SENEGAL Macky Sall cherry-picks his party's opponents 15th August 2023 Multiple contenders will vie for the presidency next year but leading oppositionist Sonko will be shut out Outgoing President Macky Sall has given the clearest indication that his successor will face a genuine election contest next year – but his leading opponent will be barred fr... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 17 | SENEGAL President Sall plays opposition roulette 8th August 2023 The opposition leader is detained, facing fresh charges but new laws allow an opposition mayor to run for president The battle between President Macky Sall, who stated in early July that he would not seek a third term, and opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is intensifying with the banning of the m... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 14 | SENEGAL No last stand 6th July 2023 Surprised relief greeted President Macky Sall's 3 July announcement that he will not seek a third term in next February's election – after months of insisting that he had the...
Vol 64 No 13 | SENEGAL Political divide deepens 23rd June 2023 Justice minister Sidiki Kaba – a former head of the International Human Rights Federation – has dismissed critics of the tough crackdown on the protests that followed t...
Vol 64 No 12 | SENEGAL Street hits back for Sonko 8th June 2023 Senegalese are in shock after lethal clashes between police and crowds protesting the 1 June conviction of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko for 'corrupting the morals' of 20-year-ol...
Vol 64 No 11 | SENEGAL Sonko's trial is Sall's challenge 25th May 2023 The outcome of the firebrand oppositionist's trial could transform the face of politics, and may open the way to other contenders More than two years after he was first charged with raping the masseuse Adji Sarr and then making death threats, Ousmane Sonko, the charismatic leader of the Pastef Les Patriotes p...
