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...
In November last year Aly Ngouille Ndiaye Senegal's former Minister for Mines and now Interior Minister announced an inquiry into the finances of both Y'en a marre (the hip-hop-driven movement which opposed Abdoulaye Wade's failed bid for a third term in 2012 and historically the reason why Sall is in power today) and its foreign supporters some of whom have been forced to stop working in Senegal...