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Senegal
Population: 13.1 mn.
GDP: 12.9 bn.
Debt: 2.5 bn.
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Youssou N'Dour's candidacy in February's presidential is dramatic bus established opposition candidates like Macky Sall will make the best showing. President Abdoulaye Wade cannot win against a credible unity candidate in a second round. 

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  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Wade’s one-man band

Power is concentrated in the hands of President Abdoulaye Wade; development strategy is led by his son, Karim Wade. There are 41 ministers (plus a new Vice-Premier, a job suddenly announced for Awa Guèye Kébé on 3 July) but most have little clout. Preside...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Karim the successor

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. One French diplomat, who knows both men well, told Africa Confidential: 'When you see them both together, ...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

Fifty years on, forget the first forty

An enormous statue and some airbrushed history were President Wade’s tributes to 50 years of nationhood

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

CDC goes offshore

A mining company in which the British government is the biggest shareholder is using Mauritius-registered front companies to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes on its mineral operations in Senegal and violating its own investment code. The CDC, for...

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Wade dynasty

By promoting his son Karim Wade into the government of new Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye on 1 May, President Abdoulaye Wade has revived his project for a hereditary presidency. Until the local elections of 22 March, when the opposition swept the ...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

Une affaire de famille

Voters in the local elections have turned down President Wade’s political plans for himself and his son Karim

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Yom Ashura

Forgiveness and tolerance are key to Gambia and Senegal's celebration of the Islamic holy day of Yom Ashura (the tenth day of the Islamic New Year), this year on 8 January. In contrast with the self-flagellation of Middle Eastern Shiite Muslims in remembr...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

The son also rises

The aged President is promoting a hereditary succession; the people would prefer affordable food

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Local is national

The elections for local councils are about national issues and the opposition wants to make a point

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

The Wade summit

Several varieties of uncertainty hang over the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) before its summit meeting in Dakar on 13-14 March. Unfinished buildings are scattered across the city. Local employees of Air France are threatening to strike on t...

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