Abdou Diouf

New electoral rules and new political realities mean that President Abdou Diouf's Parti Socialiste faces a real contest in the National Assembly elections on 24 May (and a presidential one in 2000)...

The promoters of Senegal's main tourist resort like President Abdou Diouf talk as little as they can about the unrest in Casamance...

Jospin is due in Dakar in December to visit veteran President Abdou Diouf and discuss France's new message of 'African solutions to African problems'...

Presidents Abdou Diouf (Senegal) and Henri Konan Bédié (Côte d'Ivoire) highlighted its futility...

Jammeh himself has been working hard to bring round President Abdou Diouf...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Notable absentees were Presidents Abdou Diouf of Senegal and Henri Konan Bédié of Côte d'Ivoire...

Yet in 1997 only Bongo and Senegal's President Abdou Diouf still have the weight to attempt a veto on Parisian reform...

Jacques Chirac was preceded by Presidents Abdou Diouf of Senegal Omar Bongo of Gabon and (most senior of all) Gnassingbé Eyadèma of Togo - not perhaps the best augury for the summit's official theme 'democracy and good governance'...

As usual the Parti Socialiste dominates the countryside and President Abdou Diouf's political ascendancy is clear...