#Karim_Wade, #Senegal’s “Mister 15%” Goes to Jail
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Monday 23 March 2015 was set to be the day of reckoning in Senegal. The presiding judge of the Court for Repression of Illicit Enrichment (CREI) delivered the verdict on.....
Y’en a Marre and #Le_Balai_Citoyen Activists Arrested in #DRC
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Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. On Sunday afternoon activists from #Senegal’s Y’en a Marre (We’re Fed Up) movement and #Burkina_Faso’s Le Balai Citoyen (Citizen’s.....
Disgraced #Abdoulaye_Wade leaves behind “exile” in Versailles, returns to #Dakar
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Two years ago, Abdoulaye Wade, after 12 of years in power as #Senegal’s President, lost his post in an election against his former Prime Minister, #Macky_Sall. Wade decamped to the wealthy Versailles suburb in Paris (his wife is French and he lived there during exile from Senghor’s regime). Last week he returned to Senegal. […]