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Candidates vying for the Senegalese presidency slated for February 26th, Sunday began touring the country to canvass for votes as the electoral campaign kicked off since midnight Saturday for a period of three weeks.
The civil society organisations (CSOs) gathered in the Social Watch Benin Network, on Thursday invited Senegal’s incumbent leader, Abdoulaye Wade, who is seeking a third presidential term in office, “to take a peaceful retirement,” the group said...
Senegal’s Constitutional Council, on Friday evening published the list of 14 candidates who can stand in the February 26 2012 presidential election in Senegal, including 86 years old incumbent leader Abdoulaye Wade.
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The former Economy and Finance Minister of Senegal, Makhtar Diop, has been appointed Vice-President of the World Bank for Africa, the communication service of the institution’s regional office in Dakar revealed to APA on Monday.
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The leader of the Senegalese opposition Front for socialism and democracy / Benno Jubel (FSD-BJ), Cheikh Bamba Dièye, Mayor-cum-Member of parliament of Saint-Louis (257km north of Dakar), has been nominated by his party as the candidate for the February...
Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade on Tuesday in Dakar laid the foundation stone for a museum to be dedicated to black civilization, APA can divulge.
The Secretary General of the Movement for Democratic Forces of Casamance, Jean-Marie François Biagui has said the separatist movement in the south of Senegal may metamorphose into a political party, with the same MFDC acronym.
The government of the Saudi kingdom has pledged to build Senegal’s national archives and library, President Abdoulaye Wade announced on Friday evening, in a statement issued at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting.
It is widely assumed that few of the estimated 50,000 ‘talibés’ in Senegal – boys in Koranic schools, or ‘daaras’, studying to become Islamic teachers – who roam the streets begging for money to support their religious leader (‘marabout’)...