Léopold Sédar Senghor

He works closely with the Africa specialists in the presidential diplomatic team at the Elysée: Franck Paris who was a Macron classmate in the 2004 graduation year – named after Senegal's former President Léopold Sédar Senghor – at the Ecole National d'Administration; his career at the Quai and in Brussels has focussed on African defence and development issues; his colleague Marie Audouard is a career diplomat...

Closer to home past difficulties between past leaders Jawara and the late President Léopold Senghor of Senegal which surrounds Gambia except for its coastline are nothing compared to the rifts between Jammeh and President Macky Sall...

Born in 1953 in France where his father René was studying medicine before later becoming personal physician to Senegal's first President Léopold Sédar Senghor Lionel Zinsou completed his education at the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences-Pô) in Paris and the London School of Economics...

Senegal's first two Presidents Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf respected Touba's special status as the virtual private property of the Mbacké family...

The remarkable thing about Wade’s speech at the inauguration was that while praising the past ‘heroes of the nation’ he made no mention of the two Presidents who preceded him Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf...

Lawyer Aïssata Tall Sall a former Parti Socialiste Communications Minister claims Wade is testing the water hoping that if he can prolong his mandate he can later change the constitution again and pass on the succession as President Léopold Senghor did in 1980 when he picked Abdou Diouf as his successor...

2006 will also see celebrations in October marking the centenary of the birth of Senegal's first President Léopold Sédar Senghor...

According to another potential présidentiable Serigne Mboup Managing Director of the state oil company Petrosen Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is now the busiest airport in West Africa...

This connection is a curious legacy of the late President Léopold Sédar Senghor's experiments with controlled multi-party politics in the 1970s...

Apart from the beaches and constant sunshine many visitors come to experience the music art and literature which poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor first put on the international map...