Ousmane Sonko the charismatic leader of the Pastefs les Patriotes opposition party is in full campaign mode for the presidential elections due in early 2024 – although President Macky Sall is yet to announce whether he will run for a third term...
As such a bid would trigger mass protests it could undermine Sall's international image as chairman of the African Union and continental advocate on debt and climate issues (AC Vol 63 No 11 Macky Sall faces the third-term curse)...
They sparked widespread riots in early 2021 and that could be repeated this year (AC Vol 62 No 6 Macky Sall buys some time)...
This included an EU-Egypt Renewable Hydrogen Partnership and Senegalese President Macky Sall presented plans for a 'high-level' panel to mobilise an expansion in African water investment...
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Senegalese President Macky Sall and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa also called for an end to Zimbabwean sanctions the former in a speech before the General Assembly saying the 'harsh measures continue to fuel a sense of injustice against an entire people'...
Senegal's President and African Union Chair Macky Sall abstained in March after having earlier co-signed a strong condemnation by the AU of Moscow's invasion...
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Senegal's President and African Union chair Macky Sall led the charge telling the General Assembly that the climate adaptation funding should be given in global solidarity 'in return for efforts made by developing countries to avoid the polluting patterns that have plunged the planet into the current climate emergency...
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That is how president Macky Sall qualified the scenes of fighting lawmakers at the opening of the Assemblée nationale Senegal's 165-strong parliament on 12 September...
Voting resumed under police protection and in the end Amadou Mame Diop the deputy mayor of the northern town of Richard Toll – also a close confidante of President Macky Sall – was chosen as parliament's president for the next five years...
Dakar now seems out of reach for BBY for the foreseeable future while the tenacity of President Macky Sall's main challenger and now mayor of Ziguinchor Ousmane Sonko of the Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (PASTEF the core of the YAW coalition) has surprised many...
Mediation by Togo's foreign minister Robert Dussey and Senegal's President Macky Sall has so far failed to find a solution although three women were released by Mali on 3 September...
Final results of elections to the 165-seat national assembly are yet to be confirmed – but the 31 July polls have delivered a major setback to the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition and President Macky Sall...
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Senegal's President Macky Sall who chairs the African Union this year told the summit that economies in his region were caught between the hammer of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine and the anvil of sanctions on Moscow which have triggered widespread disruptions of supply chains...
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Top AU officials and its political chair Senegal's President Macky Sall stymied two previous attempts by Zelensky to speak to African leaders...
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