But the 23 January local polls show they now face serious opposition after years of political hegemony aided by court cases that removed two major challengers – Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade – from the field of play (AC Vol 59 No 18 Not lacking convictions)...
In Senegal in 2012 he went head to head with the son of then President Abdoulaye Wade Karim Wade when the latter tried to dislodge Bolloré from his dominant position in the port of Dakar...
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For many Senegalese the claims were reminiscent of the legal cases that had removed other prominent opponents Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall from the electoral scene (AC Vol 59 No 17 President plays by his rules & Vol 59 No 18 Not lacking convictions)...
Insiders believe that President Wade's energy minister and son Karim Wade made the original deals with Timis for exploring the offshore blocks and that when Wade lost office Timis had to make new deals with President Sall and his brother...
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He has also reached out to Karim Wade...
He has the advantage of incumbency in a much-reduced field of candidates following the publication of the Constitutional Council's 3 January decision to accept just five: the incumbent; former president Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim Wade; the rising opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko; Dakar's jailed former mayor Khalifa Sall; and the virtually unknown Issa Sall who leads the University of the Sahel (AC Vol 58 No 16 Who loves ya BBY...
Finally Karim Wade a former minister is domiciled in Qatar and not expected to campaign in Senegal...
Petro-Tim obtained a licence to prospect for oil in the Cayar Offshore Profond and Saint Louis Offshore Profond from the then President Abdoulaye Wade's son Infrastructure and Energy minister Karim Wade in 2012...
Mame Mbaye Niang the tourism minister and one of Macky Sall's most vociferous cheerleaders – this month he created the Plateforme Senegal 2035 to support Sall's re-election bid – accused Sonko of plagiarism and being in cahoots with Abdoulaye and Karim Wade...
Karim Wade who lives in Qatar was convicted for corruption and then pardoned but he remains excluded from the race on nationality grounds even if he could win the backing of his father's Parti démocratique Sénégalais (AC Vol 55 No 24 Sall clears the decks & Vol 57 No 14 Mercy and Machiavelli)...
Meanwhile Karim Wade – son of former President Abdoulaye Wade – insists he will return from Qatar to campaign for the presidency...
The government has also faced loud complaints by the opposition since it announced that Karim Wade the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade and designated presidential candidate of the Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS) is not on the electoral roll...
A new report from Amnesty International calls Khalifa Sall's original trial and conviction unfair and also criticises the conduct of the earlier corruption trial of Karim Wade...
The CREI convicted Karim Wade over his stewardship of a multi-portfolio ministerial empire sentencing him to six years in prison and a €210 mn...
The deal was arranged with Oil and Energy Minister at the time Karim Wade son of the then President Abdoulaye Wade...
Karim Wade was sentenced to six years in gaol for illegally hiding away funds in offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Panama...
