Vol 59 No 23 | SENEGAL A well-oiled machine 23rd November 2018 The President deflects criticisms of the management of oil resources while deftly removing all credible challengers to his re-election The flies are buzzing around Senegal's highly promising offshore fields even though there have been no major announcements of new oil and gas discoveries in 2018. The juniors have ...
Vol 59 No 18 | SENEGAL Not lacking convictions 14th September 2018 Having lost his first appeal against conviction for the misuse of municipal funds, Khalifa Sall has been dismissed as mayor of Dakar by President Macky Sall – even though the...
Vol 59 No 17 | SENEGAL President plays by his rules 22nd August 2018 Opposition leaders accuse Macky Sall of bending the law courts to his advantage as the opposition flounders in the lead-up to elections With just seven months to go to Senegal's next presidential election, the political mood remains sour as opponents accuse President Macky Sall of manipulating the judicial system t...
Vol 59 No 2 | SENEGAL Socialists sack Sall 25th January 2018 The trial of the mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, is tearing Senegal's oldest political party apart. On 30 December the Parti socialiste (PS) expelled 65 members for breaching discipl...
Vol 58 No 16 | SENEGAL Who loves ya, BBY? 4th August 2017 Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne declared on 1 August that the presidential coalition Benno Bokk Yakaar, which he managed, had swept the electoral board, taking 42 of S...
Vol 58 No 10 | SENEGAL Majors push out the minnows 12th May 2017 Big oil has moved in on Senegal's nascent gas sector, shouldering smaller players like Timis aside, albeit greatly to his profit Rapid manoeuvring by some of the world's largest oil producers to take advantage of Senegal's resource boom appears to have removed maverick businessman Vasile Frank Timis, the sel...
Vol 58 No 9 | SENEGAL Macky challenger gaoled 27th April 2017 Dakar's Mayor Khalifa Sall is in prison only because President Macky Sall fears his growing challenge to his power, say his supporters. The President's far more charismatic namesak...
Vol 58 No 7 | SENEGAL Timis takes shine off boom 31st March 2017 New oil and gas discoveries off Senegal's coast have seen oil majors circling as Frank Timis maintains an interest The involvement of the maverick businessman Vasile Frank Timis in Senegal's oil industry and his cosy relationship with President Macky Sall's government has attracted renewed inte...
Vol 57 No 14 | SENEGAL Mercy and Machiavelli 8th July 2016 Pardoning Karim Wade weakens Macky Sall's political reform programme. But he has other aims, and other opponents The release on 24 June of Karim Wade, son of the previous President, immediately stirred suspicion that President Macky Sall had one eye on next year's elections. Karim, 47, was pa...
Vol 57 No 12 | CHADSENEGAL Not the court of Africa 10th June 2016 The President is proud of Senegal's role in hosting the Habré trial but does not want to set a precedent Following the landmark trial in Dakar of Chadian former dictator Hissène Habré, President Macky Sall has played down suggestions that Senegal should now become the permanent home o...
