Vol 56 No 15 | SENEGAL Sall and the separatists 23rd July 2015 Casamance has long been one of the government’s worst headaches. A new approach promises change President Macky Sall prides himself on his regional profile and holds the presidency of the Economic Community of West African States to prove it. The antithesis of the grandstanding...
Vol 56 No 11 | SENEGAL Students of separatism 29th May 2015 Student protests at inadequate facilities are reminding many of the long-running and still unresolved campaign for Casamance's independence from Senegal. The University of Assane Seck, in Ziguinchor, was...
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...
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...
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 take...
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...
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...
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 local elections...
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...
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 pledges worth US$4.5...