Madické Niang

Madické Niang Wade's former foreign minister had hoped to obtain the party's nomination but was brushed aside to keep Karim in place...

Recent defections from the PDS – still dominated by the elderly Wade père and lacking a credible strategy with Karim living outside Senegal and other would-be candidates such as former Foreign Minister Madické Niang shunted aside – make his chances even better...

It was widely reported that this was triggered by his attempt to investigate more heavyweights from the formerly governing Parti démocratique sénégalais including ex-Foreign Minister Madické Niang Mbaye Ndiaye the ex-Director of Aéroports de Sénégal and his wife Ndella Wade...

They also deplored Senegal’s refusal to respect the ruling by the Economic Community of West African States Court on 22 February ordering the lifting of travel restrictions on Karim and other senior Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS) officials including former ministers Oumar Sarr Madické Niang and Samuel Sarr who are all under investigation for illicit enrichment...

The principal targets of the CREI Prosecutor General Alioune Ndao are mostly from Wade’s inner circle: former ‘super minister’ Karim Wade; ex-Foreign Minister Madické Niang; Wade’s last Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye; Ousmane Ngom for years Wade’s main Spokesman and Interior Minister (his wife has also faced enquiries); Abdoulaye Baldé who graduated from a police and criminal justice background to become Secretary General of the Presidency Mayor of Ziguinchor and Executive Director of ANOCI; Oumar Sarr ex-Housing Minister and a controversial choice as post-election National Coordinator of the PDS; and former Energy Minister Samuel Sarr...

A visit to Banjul by former President Abdoulaye Wade’s Foreign Minister Madické Niang is said to have helped their cases...

Senior Senegalese lawyers have long presented Habré’s case against extradition; one of his own lawyers was Madické Niang Wade’s Foreign Minister...

Foreign Minister Madicke Niang recently visited Abidjan including the inner city Treicheville district as well as Yamoussoukro and Bouaké...

Senegal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Madické Niang has kept up a busy Asian schedule this year...

In Senegal Kikuta met Foreign Affairs Minister Madicke Niang and Health Minister Modou Diagne Fada attended a maternal health seminar at the Ecole Nationale de Développement Sanitaire et Social and inspected Japanese-funded health and training projects...