Vol 60 No 4 | SENEGAL Macky wants first round KO 22nd February 2019 Having virtually obliterated the opposition, the President is banking on winning the poll in the first round President Macky Sall may be about to pick up an unlikely gift from an old foe. In protest at the exclusion of his son Karim as a presidential candidate – because of an unpaid...
Vol 60 No 4 | SENEGAL Sall campaign 'fakes news' 22nd February 2019 The run-up to the 2019 presidential elections has seen unprecedented amounts of fake news and smear campaigns against all the candidates, but none have been quite as bizarre as the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 1 | SENEGAL Sall safe for second term 11th January 2019 The President is a shoo-in for re-election, but then he will have to make good on his grandiose promises President Macky Sall is unlikely to need a second round to secure re-election in February. He has the advantage of incumbency in a much-reduced field of candidates, following the p...
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...
