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Macky Sall

Date of Birth: 11 December 1961
Place of Birth: Fatick, Senegal


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ZANU-PF beats its economic chest

Senegalese President Macky Sall and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa also called for an end to Zimbabwean sanctions the former in a speech before the General Assembly saying the 'harsh measures continue to fuel a sense of injustice against an entire people'...


Weakened president in troubled waters

That is how president Macky Sall qualified the scenes of fighting lawmakers at the opening of the Assemblée nationale Senegal's 165-strong parliament on 12 September...

Voting resumed under police protection and in the end Amadou Mame Diop the deputy mayor of the northern town of Richard Toll – also a close confidante of President Macky Sall – was chosen as parliament's president for the next five years...

Dakar now seems out of reach for BBY for the foreseeable future while the tenacity of President Macky Sall's main challenger and now mayor of Ziguinchor Ousmane Sonko of the Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (PASTEF the core of the YAW coalition) has surprised many...


Anti-jihad forces try to do without Mali

Mediation by Togo's foreign minister Robert Dussey and Senegal's President Macky Sall has so far failed to find a solution although three women were released by Mali on 3 September...


BBY suffers poll backlash

Final results of elections to the 165-seat national assembly are yet to be confirmed – but the 31 July polls have delivered a major setback to the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition and President Macky Sall...


Poll ban fans the flames

The authorities also barred reserve list candidates from President Macky Sall's Benno Bokk Yakaar alliance but that was only a trivial blow to the government...

Yewwi had hoped to capitalise on its big gains in January's municipal elections as it prepares to challenge the expected third term bid by the increasingly intolerant Sall (AC Vol 63 No 11 Macky Sall faces the third-term curse)...


Sall cuts deal on food crisis

At last week's European Union summit in Brussels Senegal's President Macky Sall who also chairs the African Union (AU) appeared to have secured public support from the EU for a massive expansion in financial and technical support for agricultural production across Africa...


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