Abdoulaye Wade

Rioting over power cuts and bids to change the constitution had already hurt President Abdoulaye Wade and his son Karim politically and now they seem also to have lost the confidence of the powerful Françafrique network of Francophone African leaders and top French politicians and business executives...

ITOC is a Senegalese trading company that belongs to the reclusive businessman Abdoulaye (‘Baba’) Diaw who runs it with Moustapha Niasse one-time Prime Minister and now sworn enemy of President Abdoulaye Wade and leader of the Alliance des forces de progrès...

The Chairman of the Board of the Société africaine de raffinage (SAR) is Serigne Mboup a one-time ally of former Prime Minister Macky Sall who is expected to challenge President Abdoulaye Wade at the next election...

These include Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade who in June became the first African leader to visit the TNC in Benghazi...

On 22 June President Abdoulaye Wade – officially 84 but probably nearer 90 – was about to propose a constitutional amendment to secure a guaranteed third term in February’s elections and a legal means to leave the presidency to his son Karim if he dies in office...

Despite a growing sense that he is losing his political touch President Abdoulaye Wade is determined to stand in February’s presidential election people close to him have told Africa Confidential...

President Abdoulaye Wade warmly welcomed Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s victory at the polls...

Missing Moammar Four African Presidents attended the celebrations – Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Guinea's new President Alpha Condé President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade – along with African Union Commission President Jean Ping...

Ould Abdel Aziz is nurturing relations with his Senegalese neighbour President Abdoulaye Wade another partisan of Ouattara...

Of the seven leaders present four had credible electoral mandates: Ghana’s John Atta Mills Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Mali’s Amani Toumani Touré and Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade...