Euronews
| Mar 27, 2012
Senegal has once again just shown that, where Africa is concerned, it is a little bit different. It has just held a mostly peaceful and fraud-free presidential election. And, after decades of one man in power a democratic transition can be a diffi...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 26, 2012
Preliminary results from Senegal's presidential runoff vote show that former prime minister Macky Sall won a landslide victory against Abdoulaye Wade who ruled the country for 12 years. Andrew Simmons reports from Dakar.
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 28, 2012
Senegal's president has acknowledged that he may not have enough votes to avoid an election run-off. Abdoulaye Wade had been predicting outright victory as he seeks a controversial third term in office, but now he has lost his earlier swagger. A...
Democracy Now!
| Feb 28, 2012
Senegal appears headed to a run-off election after a heated first round of voting and a year of protests against President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to seek third term, despite a constitutional two-term limit. The protests are "the most bloody and...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 21, 2012
Opposition protesters in Senegal continue to gather to demonstrate against President Abdoulaye Wade's candidacy in Sunday's upcoming election.
Protesters are banned from gathering in Independence Square in the capital Dakar. The might of the pre...
Euronews
| Feb 22, 2012
Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo is in Senegal as a special African envoy to try to defuse tensions ahead of next Sunday's presidential election. The violence has left at least six people dead -- another victim was reported on Tuesday as p...
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Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party and has led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.
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