Earlier Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and Senegal's Macky Sall had discreetly signed the revenue-sharing agreement for the zone established in 1993...
On 19 December Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and Senegal's President Macky Sall the present and next holders of the AU presidency respectively joined Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels for talks with European Council President Charles Michel to lay the groundwork for an Africa-Europe summit on 17-18 February...
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On 19 December he hosted a preparatory meeting with AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat and three African Presidents: Félix Tshisekedi (Congo-Kinshasa); Macky Sall (Senegal); Paul Kagame (Rwanda)...
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She has worked as an adviser to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and is a friend of Senegal's President Macky Sall...
On 27 September Blair flew in a top-of-the-range 16-seat Falcon 7X business jet chartered from Volkswagen Air Services a subsidiary of the German car-maker to Dakar where he met President Macky Sall before flying on the 28th to Lilongwe where he met President Lazarus Chakwera...
In Senegal the speculation about President Macky Sall's ambitions for a third term – which would directly contravene the promised two-term limit that was at the heart of his original election victory back in 2012 – was a major driver behind a wave of rioting in February and March this year...
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Vol 62 No 18 |
- AFRICA
- COVID-19
Vaccine manufacture in Africa was on the agenda of the Compact with Africa summit led by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda President Macky Sall of Senegal and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 27 August...
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They include South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Senegal's Macky Sall Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde Mozambique's Filipe Nyusi and Angola's João Lourenço together with three prime ministers: Spain's Pedro Sanchez Italy's Mario Draghi and Portugal's António Costa (AC Vol 62 No 4 France holds tight in the Sahel & Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
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So bitter did the contest become that Bolloré ended up backing Macky Sall who defeated Karim's father in the presidential election of 2012 although it is not suggested Sall would not otherwise have won...
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After two weeks of protest and the most violent clashes between demonstrators and the security forces seen in decades leaving at least 10 dead and 600 injured the government of President Macky Sall and supporters of his prime opponent Ousmane Sonko have retreated into an uneasy calm...
Tables turnedToday's crisis is a turning of the tables for Macky Sall who nine years ago was himself the popular opposition challenger defeating President Abdoulaye Wade who had super-promoted his son Karim and then fudged the rules to run for a third term...
