Abdoulaye Wade

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade’s North Korean-built Monument de la Renaissance Africaine is an example of all that can go wrong on the slippery descent into authoritarianism and neopatrimonial rule...

Following the principle that frequent face-to-face meetings lead to improved relations between countries and premium access to natural resources South Korean President Lee Myung-bak promised the guest of honour Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade that South Korea would double its foreign assistance to Africa in the next three years...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has called the postcolonial defence agreements hypocritical but Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade fears countries could slide into civil war without the stabilising effect of French troops who dominate EU peacekeeping forces in Chad and CAR...

President Abdoulaye Wade barely hides his contempt for Jammeh but the only serious rift came four years ago when Gambia tried to tax Senegalese traders at the border...

By promoting his son Karim Wade into the government of new Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye on 1 May President Abdoulaye Wade has revived his project for a hereditary presidency...

Disaster has struck President Abdoulaye Wade’s coalition led by his Parti Démocratique Sénégalais at the polls on 22 March...

Abdoulaye Baldé a former police commissioner saw service under former President Abdou Diouf then under Abdoulaye Wade before enlisting with Karim Wade who seemed headed for supreme power...

In Khartoum a previously sympathetic President Abdoulaye Wade told Omer Senegal could not give him refuge as it was party to the ICC...

After several other African leaders including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe had supported Museveni's criticism of Gadaffi and his ideas Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade told Gadaffi that the majority had spoken against his position...

Some African leaders notably Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are backing the putschists and have called for them to be given more time...

President Abdoulaye Wade is still formally in control of the party but seems baffled by its divisions at the top and the grassroots...