All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
This is the scoop of the year 2009. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal is in close contact with Koukoie Samba Sanyang, a Gambian dissident and leader of the July 1981 obortive coup.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Dakar on Thursday, the second African capital on a five-nation tour that has also seen him visit Latin America. Ahmadinejad was welcomed at the airport by his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade. The Iranian leader was due to leave for Tehran in the afternoon after a visit lasting several hours, a source at the Iranian embassy said, without providing...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
With presidential elections in Senegal still two years away, the tide is conspicuously turning against the ruling Parti Democratic Senegalais (PDS) of the ageing and politically savvy Abdoulaye Wade.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, has insisted that all Senegalese citizens who want to set up private TVs or radios “should give evidence that their financial resources are not provided by foreigners.” Wade was reacting to a controversy over the suspension of the attribution process of a TV frequency to “Futurs Medias”, a group owned by [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has shot down rumours that he plans to call early presidential elections.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
One of President Abdoulaye Wade's several great pan-African projects which the ageing Senegalese leader had wanted to meet the December 2009 deadline has turned out a fiasco, chiefly due to inadequate and timely funding.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
TWO weeks ago, Senegal's prime minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, confirmed that Alex Segura, the outgoing president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was given a briefcase that contained almost $200,000 (about sh400m) as a 'present' after having a dinner with the country's president Abdoulaye Wade last month.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
At an opposition protest Friday in Dakar, thousands demanded the resignation of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, whose admission of having given money to a departing IMF official has sparked indignation and accusations of corruption.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Thousands of protestors on Friday marched through the main roads of the Senegalese capital Dakar, demanding the resignation of President Abdoulaye Wade. The protestors, in response to the call by the opposition Bennoo Siggil Senegal, screaming in the local Wolof language, marched peacefully for two hours under police escort and dispersed without any major incident. The majority of them were young men...
IOL (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is keen to stand for re-election in 2012 despite his age.
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has admitted that his top aide gave an International Monetary Fund (IMF) representative to Senegal $200,000 in cash as a goodbye gift.But in a statement released Tuesday, Wade said the gift to IMF country representative Alex Segura in September was not a bribe.Political analyst Abdou Lo said even though Senegalese are used to bigger presidential scandals, many
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
SENEGALESE President Abdoulaye Wade has asked leaders in Africa to desist from religious divisions for a better future. Wade said religion had divided people, thus hindering development.
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Dudi Cohen Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office released a picture of the leader from an official meeting he held Saturday with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. The picture is the first to be published since rumors about the Ayatollah sinking into a coma surfaced. Earlier this week, a website with close ties to the Iranian government claimed the rumors stemmed from western propaganda...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Tehran - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade arrived in Tehran Saturday for a two-day official visit, the news network Khabar reported. Wade, on his fourth visit to Tehran within the last three years, is scheduled to discuss bilateral ties and Middle...
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
While some may point out that the bigger issue in this story may be ego, hubris or (perhaps) corruption, the story of Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, and his $27 million statue has a ridiculous intellectual property twist, as well . Apparently, Wade had the government spend $27 million on a statue with a "heroic" pose -- this is a country where the per capita yearly income seems to be...
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