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Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade concluding an official two-day visit to Libya on Wednesday during which he held talks with the Leader of the Revolution.The two leaders discussed bilateral relations between Libya and Senegal and the state of affairs of the CEN-SAD Community in which the are members.They talks focused on the ways and means of to consolidate the African Union and the completing...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The history and life of the Senegalese Tirailleurs (a corps of the French army recruited from French-speaking Africa during the First and Second World Wars) will be taught in the Senegalese elementary schools from the next school year which starts in October, Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade announced Wednesday in Dakar. “The Senegalese Tirailleurs will have a [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Reporters Without Borders urges President Abdoulaye Wade to quickly embark on a thorough overhaul of Senegal's press legislation after El Malick Seck, the editor of the Dakar-based daily 24 Heures Chrono, was today sentenced to three years in prison for an article claiming that the president was involved in money laundering.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
A Senegalese court on Friday sentenced a newspaper publisher to three years in jail for printing false news and offending President Abdoulaye Wade.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Reporters Without Borders urges President Abdoulaye Wade to quickly embark on a thorough overhaul of Senegal's press legislation after El Malick Seck, the editor of the Dakar-based daily "24 Heures Chrono", was sentenced to three years in prison on 12 September 2008 for an article claiming that the president was involved in money laundering.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
On 1 September 2008, El Malick Seck, editor-in-chief of "24 Heures Chrono", a Dakar-based daily newspaper who is being detained for allegedly libelling President Abdoulaye Wade, made his first appearance in court.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Dakar, Senegal - El Malick Seck, the editor-in-chief the privately-owned Dakar based-daily "24 Heures Chrono", will appear in a Dakar, Senegal, court shortly accused of libelling President Abdoulaye Wade. Seck was arrested 28 August following the publication of a lead story in his paper which implicated President Wade and his son, Karim, with money laundering -- of money stolen in 2003 from the Central...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Trade-unionists, journalists and ordinary citizens in Senegal have expressed relief and satisfaction days after Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade sacked Mr Farba Senghor, his Air Transport minister.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Dakar, Senegal - Former Senegalese Air Transport Minister Farba Senghor, dismissed Thursday by President Abdoulaye Wade on groun ds of being involved in the attack against two privately-owned newspapers, "is go ing to report, willingly or forcibly, to the Public prosecutor", Presidential spokesman El Hadji Amadou Sall said Sunday here.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Dakar, Senegal - President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal Thursday dismissed the Minister of Air Transports and Craft Industry, Mr. Farba Senghor, Information Minister and government spokesman, Mr. Abdou Aziz Sow, announced on the national television.
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Source: Reuters By Diadie Ba DAKAR, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade dismissed his party's powerful propaganda chief from the government on Thursday after newspapers accused the minister of ...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Reporters Without Borders has written to President Abdoulaye Wade about the ransacking of the premises of two Dakar-based dailies - L'As and 24 heures - on the night of 17 August amid mounting tension between the privately-owned press and Farba Senghor, the minister of handicraft and air transport.
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Black Star Journal (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade has been seen as a beacon of the much-touted African Renaissance since his election in 2000. He was one of the main proponents of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), which basically tries to get African leaders to keep tabs on their own. Its motto is 'Democracy and good political governance.' Yet Wade's rule has become increasingly authoritarian,...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Dakar, Senegal - The Paris-based media freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has expressed concern over recent remarks by President Abdoulaye Wade and his top government officials against the Senegalese private media.
