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...

She has worked as an adviser to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and is a friend of Senegal's President Macky Sall...

On 27 September Blair flew in a top-of-the-range 16-seat Falcon 7X business jet chartered from Volkswagen Air Services a subsidiary of the German car-maker to Dakar where he met President Macky Sall before flying on the 28th to Lilongwe where he met President Lazarus Chakwera...

In Senegal the speculation about President Macky Sall's ambitions for a third term – which would directly contravene the promised two-term limit that was at the heart of his original election victory back in 2012 – was a major driver behind a wave of rioting in February and March this year...