Abdoulaye Wade

The Director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Jacques Diouf calls for international aid to meet the food deficit; he is from Senegal whose President Abdoulaye Wade calls food aid a'swindle' and the'scandal of the century' which should be investigated by international legal authorities...

President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal was invited along with the Presidents of Algeria Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Nigeria South Africa and Tanzania to represent the continent at the Africa section of July's G8 meeting to be hosted by Japan...

'Europe has nearly lost the battle of competition in Africa ' declared Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade...

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is proposing a new initiative and the AU is considering sending its Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré to mediate...

Octogenarian President Abdoulaye Wade and his 65-year-old South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki seem to disagree about many things especially the African Union and the New Partnership for African Development (NePAD)...

First they think President Abdoulaye Wade's government is weak and incompetent...

Until recently the leading contender for the PDS presidential nomination had been Macky Sall the Speaker of the National Assembly who was Abdoulaye Wade's Prime Minister in 2004-2007 and ran Wade's re-election campaign...

Seck was then accepted as the 'spiritual son' and 'natural successor' to Abdoulaye Wade...

Karim Wade the son of President Abdoulaye Wade is the subject of complaints about the award of Senegal's third mobile phone licence to Sudatel whose closest competitor Celtel (owned by Zain of Kuwait) offered US$210 million outbidding Sudatel by $10 mn...

In Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade clapped politely in support of France's selective immigration policy while Sarkozy argued that African societies restrict intellectual and material progress in a badly-received speech at Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University...

Yet it was evident from the start that there was little common ground between a minority group calling for the immediate formation of a Union Government led by Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade and the majority group led by Africa's biggest economies of Algeria South Africa Nigeria and Kenya which paid obeisance to Nkrumah's memory and the pan-African vision but saw the road to African political unity as a long and arduous one...

TAKING SHAPE IN SENEGAL Senegal is a relatively stable democracy but the parliamentary polls on 3 June promise to prolong the rancour created by President Abdoulaye Wade's first-round presidential victory on 25 February when the opposition claimed massive fraud and gerrymandering; it is now threatening to boycott the parliamentary elections...