The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is understood to be looking at Timis's close association with Aliou Sall brother of Senegal's President Macky Sall (AC Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny) and in Freetown a British judge has been listening to the complaints of Sierra Leoneans in a landmark case against another Timis-founded company the now-defunct African Minerals Limited (AML – AC Vol 59 No 3 Drilling down)...
On 30 December the Parti socialiste (PS) expelled 65 members for breaching discipline including Sall previously a potential rival to President Macky Sall for the PS's presidential nomination...
Meanwhile Macky Sall is keeping above the fray and concentrating on securing his re-election...
Vol 58 No 25 |
- SECESSIONISM
Although the leader of the MFDC Salif Sadio declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2014 after talks with Macky Sall's government at the Vatican the rebels continue to operate and in 2017 defied the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in Gambia by siding with forces loyal to the then President Yahya Jammeh...
Vol 58 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Problem alliesLike Hollande before him Macron is much more comfortable dealing with west African reformists like President Macky Sall of Senegal than central Africa's autocrats...
Yet in the most important Dakar BBY and Manko Taxawu Senegaal the alliance around President Macky Sall's challenger Khalifa Sall the Mayor of Dakar both parties are claiming victory...
The current scandal in Senegal over questions about Timis's association with Aliou Sall brother of President Macky Sall has increased Banjul's wariness of a company associated with Timis Africa Confidential understands (AC Vol 58 No 10 Majors push out the minnows & Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny)...
On the same day Energy Minister Thierno Alassane Sall was sacked though the Presidential Office gave no reason for dismissing the former aeronautical engineer who is one of President Macky Sall's long-time allies and had been in the position since 2015...
Vol 58 No 9 |
- GUINEA BISSAU
It prevented a state visit by Senegalese President Macky Sall this month by labelling the trip planned for 20-23 April as an endorsement of Vaz's policies...
Dakar's Mayor Khalifa Sall is in prison only because President Macky Sall fears his growing challenge to his power say his supporters...
He wants to take on Macky Sall at the general elections due in July but PS leader Ousmane Tanor Dieng wants to stay in BBY...
The involvement of the maverick businessman Vasile Frank Timis in Senegal's oil industry and his cosy relationship with President Macky Sall's government has attracted renewed interest from international investigators and delayed a promised licensing round (AC Vol 57 No 14 Mercy and Machiavelli)...
