The MFDC is reportedly close to the opposition Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) and lost access to their lucrative cannabis fields as a result of Senegalese President Macky Sall's large-scale offensive against them a year ago (AC Vol 62 No 4 Sall roots out rebels)...

At the AU summit on 5-6 February Senegal's President Macky Sall who has just taken over as Chair of the African Union repeated a demand made last year by Macron that at least $100bn of SDRs should be redirected to Africa as part of a 'New Deal'...

A few hours before its victory at AfCON President Macky Sall took over as Chair of the African Union...

Michel invited to pre–summit gatherings in Brussels Senegal's President Macky Sall Congo–Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi Rwanda's Paul Kagame and African Union Commission Chair Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat (AC Vol 63 No 1 Macron pushes the EU into Africa)...

The die is not cast for President Macky Sall and his Benno Bokk Yaakar (BBY) coalition as June's legislative elections loom...

But results from rural areas and provincial towns will be a crucial pointer to the political prospects of President Macky Sall and his ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition...

And popular anger in Dakar boiled over into riots when last March Sonko the charismatic leader of the Pastef Les Patriotes party was charged with rape and threatening behaviour (AC Vol 62 No 6 Macky Sall buys some time)...

Earlier Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and Senegal's Macky Sall had discreetly signed the revenue-sharing agreement for the zone established in 1993...

On 19 December Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and Senegal's President Macky Sall the present and next holders of the AU presidency respectively joined Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels for talks with European Council President Charles Michel to lay the groundwork for an Africa-Europe summit on 17-18 February...