While Sonko's team wrestle with these bureaucratic and legal obstacles President Macky Sall's chosen successor the Prime Minister Amadou Ba presses ahead with his campaign exploiting official engagements to the full...
A year ago in view of Senegal's two-round electoral system each man looked like his colleague's best support ready to drop out and provide vital backing and votes for a final ballot run-off against what was generally expected to be a Macky Sall third term run (AC Vol 64 No 14 No last stand)...
The race is being closely watched across West Africa and also from Paris and Washington – where some Congressional officials have voiced concerns that Macky Sall might try to strong-arm a victory for Ba...
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Vol 64 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- GERMANY
Last year following meetings with Senegal's President Macky Sall Scholz said that Germany which is still exploring alternatives to the cancelled NordStream II gas pipeline with Russia was looking at investing in a gas project near Senegal's border with Mauritania (AC Dispatches 9/5/23 Chancellor Scholz seeks cooperation with Africa on tech and green energy)...
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After President Macky Sall announced in July that he would not seek a third term 11 contenders for the presidential nomination of his Alliance Pour la République (APR) and the wider ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance came forward before the uncharismatic but competent Amadou Ba a former finance and foreign minister was chosen by Sall on 9 September...
Seck came second to Macky Sall with 21% in the 2019 presidential elections at the head of his Rewmi party before he was appointed by the government to head the Economic Social and Environmental Council (AC Vol 60 No 5 Sall romps home)...
This puts the likes of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senegal's Macky Sall under pressure as they prepare to send troops...
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Outgoing President Macky Sall has given the clearest indication that his successor will face a genuine election contest next year – but his leading opponent will be barred from standing (AC Vol 64 No 14 No last stand)...
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The battle between President Macky Sall who stated in early July that he would not seek a third term and opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is intensifying with the banning of the main opposition party on 2 August...
Now both Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall no relation to President Macky Sall are both free to run for the presidency although they have both been convicted for corruption and then pardoned...
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Vol 64 No 16 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Alongside these grand ambitions the leading members of Africa's peace mission to Ukraine and Russia – South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa and Senegal's Macky Sall – will expect to discuss their ideas for a peace settlement at the summit (AC Vol 64 No 13 Kyiv and Moscow give peace mission short shrift)...
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Surprised relief greeted President Macky Sall's 3 July announcement that he will not seek a third term in next February's election – after months of insisting that he had the right to stand again because constitutional changes had restarted the term limit clock (AC Vol 64 No 2 Sall manoeuvres for a high-risk third term)...
But President Macky Sall's administration has been badly shaken by the international opprobrium following the arrest of more than 500 protestors and death of at least 16 in the wake of Sonko's trial...
On the political front compromise remains elusive though former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall Sonko's co-leader in the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance has been taking part in the national dialogue and Macky Sall has promised a statement after these talks end...