Abdoulaye Wade

In 2001 at the African Union summit in Zambia Gabonese President Omar Bongo (Sassou's son-in-law and a Bateke like Lopes) had got French-speaking African leaders including Diouf's successor Abdoulaye Wade to sign up for Lopes...

Senegal where Habré has lived since Déby overthrew him in 1990 would not oppose a Belgian extradition request despite pressure on President Abdoulaye Wade from old-guard Francophone leaders...

Last year Diouf's prospects were undermined by the frank reluctance of President Abdoulaye Wade to back his predecessor...

The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...

A string of impressive polls started with Abdoulaye Wade's unexpected victory in Senegal in March 2000...

Still much of the world rejoiced with President Abdoulaye Wade that Senegal had 'entered the era of the Senegal that wins in the ballot boxes and on the sports field...

NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...

Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade may be less keen; ATT outranks him diplomatically and has better connections both to Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to Washington...

In April's mediation brokered by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade the rivals agreed on a recount of votes to be reviewed by the High Constitutional Court and a referendum in six months if neither man emerged the clear victor...

High on the world stage President Abdoulaye Wade hosted on 14-15 April an ambitious investors' conference for the New Partnership for African Development (NePAD) while trying to help to broker a peace deal for Madagascar...