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Senegal

Abdou Diouf

Date of Birth: 7 September 1935
Place of Birth: Louga, Senegal


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Holding their noses

His companion was the Bank's new Kenya Country Director Makhtar Diop a reform-minded Finance Minister under Senegal's President Abdou Diouf who was hired by the Bank after Diouf's election 2000 defeat in the hope that his African political experience might improve results...


The re-election game

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


Wade's blue wave

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


Party games

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'...


How high the summit

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...


The centre isn't holding

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


The calabash bubbles

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...


Wade makes his mark

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...


L'effet 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...


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