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The move clears the way for former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade to stand...
Khalifa Sall and Wade were prevented from running in the 2019 elections because of convictions for misuse of municipal funds and an unpaid fine respectively (AC Vol 60 No 4 Macky wants first round KO)...
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It could increase the chances of Khalifa Sall former Dakar mayor and Karim Wade son of former president Abdoulaye Wade who stand to pick up Sonko's support...
Now both Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall no relation to President Macky Sall are both free to run for the presidency although they have both been convicted for corruption and then pardoned...
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Just-concluded National Dialogue talks saw the government accept constitutional changes to permit former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade the son of ex-president Abdoulaye Wade to stand...
On the political front compromise remains elusive though former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall Sonko's co-leader in the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance has been taking part in the national dialogue and Macky Sall has promised a statement after these talks end...
One is former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall who is discreetly positioning himself as a responsible alternative contender eschewing Sonko-style demagoguery...
In local and legislative elections in 2022 Seck's Rewmi party lost control of Thiès Senegal's third city and for decades Seck's political fiefdom to the opposition alliance of Yewwi Askan Wi led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall (AC Vol 63 No 3 Sall sags at polls)...
Last year's municipal and legislative polls brought sweeping gains for the opposition particularly the Yewwi Askan Wi (YAW) alliance led by Sonko and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall...
He hopes to woo a slice of Wade's traditional voters who may not like their still influential leader's alliance with the Sonko-Khalifa Sall camp...
If anything the opposite has happened: people have become highly sceptical of such accusations given Sall's efforts to eliminate political competitors by using Senegal's legal system most notably Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim and the former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall...
Provisional results confirm the dominance in most urban areas of the opposition alliance of Yewwi Askan Wi led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall and the Wallu movement of 96-year-old former President Abdoulaye Wade (AC Vol 63 No 11)...
Its success in the local elections in January were built around the Yewwi Askan Wi ('Free the People' in Wolof) alliance between Sonko's Pastefs and the Taxawu Senegaal movement formed by the former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall...
It resulted in the election of the hot-headed populist Barthélémy Dias a Khalifa Sall protégé as mayor of Dakar and Sonko's capture of the mayoralty in Ziguinchor the main city in Casamance...
Veteran socialist Khalifa Sall beat presidential son Karim in Dakar's municipal polls in 2009...
The key partnership is the Yewwi Askan Wi ('Free the People' in Wolof) alliance between Ousmane Sonko's Pastefs les Patriotes and the Taxawu Senegaal movement formed by the former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall...
