Vol 55 No 24 | SENEGAL Sall clears the decks 5th December 2014 Macky Sall is holding a referendum on returning the presidential term to five years. That will mean an election in 2017 President Macky Sall's re-election campaign is already commanding his agenda. He has confirmed that a referendum on reducing the presidential mandate from seven to five years will ...
Vol 55 No 24 | SENEGAL Martyr or master-crook 5th December 2014 The trial of former President Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim Meïssa Wade, which began in July, has been adjourned until 22 December after briefly resuming on 1 December. The anti-...
Vol 55 No 17 | SENEGAL Taking a chance on Casamance 19th August 2014 Armed with a development plan and secretive mediators, the President thinks he can pacify the troubled region The fractious politics of Casamance are holding up President Macky Sall's grand economic plans as he tries to relaunch his battered government. He believes that a breakthrough in t...
Vol 55 No 14 | SENEGAL Macky the knife 11th July 2014 President Macky Sall responded to his coalition’s poor showing in the 29 June local elections by sacking Prime Minister Aminata Touré and several other ministers. The ...
Vol 55 No 12 | SENEGAL The Caliph's council 13th June 2014 In defiance of a 2010 law stipulating equal numbers of both sexes, the candidates' list for the 29 June municipal elections in the holy city of Touba includes no women. The city is...
Vol 55 No 8 | SENEGAL Man with a plan 18th April 2014 A grand economic strategy is unlikely to help Macky Sall win popularity as well as revitalise the economy – some doubt it can do either The latest development plan from President Macky Sall, the Plan Sénégal émergent (PSE), has won praise from leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and...
Vol 55 No 4 | SENEGAL Hunt loses momentum 21st February 2014 The fraud and embezzlement case against Karim Wade, son of ex-President Abdoulaye Wade, has changed from an open-and-shut case into a legal labyrinth, thanks to the defendant's law...
Vol 55 No 2 | SENEGAL An early test 24th January 2014 Local elections will show whether Macky Sall’s party can stand on its own. He must deliver on his promises to improve water and power supplies Scheduled for 29 June, the local elections will be the first popularity test for President Macky Sall’s government since his election in March 2012. The mayor’s job is ...
Vol 54 No 25 | SENEGAL Sall struggles to stay on course 6th December 2013 The President needs big ideas to win elections and keep the faith of his allies, and turn around a sluggish economy. Yet he has been losing friends and momentum President Macky Sall arrived in Paris on 4 December for the African security summit with a diminished entourage. Although he brought a full complement of ministers and soldiers, hi...
Vol 54 No 21 | SENEGAL Shaky Sall seeks solace 8th October 2013 The President has been enacting bold reforms and wiping out the Wade legacy of impunity – but the public wants action on more basic matters Critical decisions over the future of legal action against Karim Wade are expected within days in Dakar, as Senegal’s anti-corruption court, the Cour de répression de ...
