Vol 56 No 8 | SENEGAL Passport to penury 17th April 2015 Senegal's visa requirement, in force since 1 July 2013, will end on 1 May, President Macky Sall announced at the 4 April Independence celebrations. It may be a welcome surprise for...
Vol 56 No 7 | SENEGAL Karim's presidential appeal 3rd April 2015 The most difficult dossier that the new Supreme Court President, Mamadou Badio Camara, has to deal with is the appeal by Karim Wade against his conviction for illicit enrichment.
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 ...
