Abdou Diouf

Ex-President Abdou Diouf was patient with Jammeh but Wade is less so...

Conspicuously absent is Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf...

Ex-President Abdou Diouf's former right-hand man PS Secretary General Ousmane Tanor Dieng ran a poor campaign and got only ten seats...

Wade beat the outgoing President Abdou Diouf of the Parti Socialiste but the PS still dominates the 120-seat Assembly and is regarded as 'wounded and dangerous'...

He has no special line even to former PS allies such as Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo or Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf nor does he seem to want them...

Senegal's Wade is making no more progress in resolving the rebellion in the southern Casamance province than did his predecessor Abdou Diouf...

In the first two the victors are trying to consolidate power: in Senegal where Abdoulaye Wade won the presidency from incumbent Abdou Diouf in March and in Côte d'Ivoire still reeling from last month's coup de théâtre when supporters of Laurent Gbagbo chased out military leader General Robert Gueï...

The diversity of the new ruling alliance made it necessary to give ministries to party leaders formerly associated with the far left such as Abdoulaye Bathily (Energy) and Amath Dansokho (Townplanning and Housing); both had been ministers under ex-President Abdou Diouf at the same time as Wade...

Ex-President Abdou Diouf's Parti Socialiste is still in turmoil: many of its members of parliament are leaving to join Premier Moustapha Niasse's Alliance pour le Renouveau Démocratique...

By voting out their President of 17 years Abdou Diouf they have steered the country into the unknown territory of Sopi (meaning 'change' in Wolof) the main slogan of Abdoulaye Wade's victorious campaign...