Senegal - Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye WadePresident
(pronounced "AHB-doo-li WAD")
"As an African, I take on the right to implicate myself in everything happening on the continen...
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LISBON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Most African leaders refuse to
accept Economic Partnership Agreements demanded by the European
Union and want to negotiate different accords to replace them,
Senegalese P...
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Area: 196,722 sq km (75,955 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 10,961,000Capital:
Dakar
Chief of state:
President
Abdoulaye
Wade
, assisted by
Prime Minister
Macky
Sall
On March 14, 2006, Senegales...
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will hold talks Saturday
with Irish rock singer Bono of the band U2, Microsoft Corp. Chairman
Bill Gates, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Sen...
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Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal's 80-year-old president, was inaugurated Tuesday before a crowd of 60,000 that included more than 20 African heads of state.The crowd, decked out in the yellow and blue colo...
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President Abdoulaye Wade received 56 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff and easily win re-election in this West African nation, officials said Thursday.The 80-year-old Wade defeated 14 other can...
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The Rev. Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, a rebel leader who fought for an independent state in Senegal's southern Casamance region for decades, has died. He was 78.The Roman Catholic priest died Satur...
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.President Abdoulaye Wade was leading 14 other contender...
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Accra/Nairobi (dpa) - A rift emerged between African leaders
mulling over a tight-knit continental federation as the 53 members
of the African Union were set to wrap up a th...
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Paris (dpa) - The French senate was set later Tuesday to begin
debate on a controversial bill that would allow would-be immigrants
to use DNA tests to prove their familial r...
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Paris (dpa) - The French Senate opened debate on Tuesday on a
controversial amendment to an immigration bill that would allow
would-be immigrants to use DNA tests to prove t...
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Senegal - Abdoulaye Wade
Africa rejects EU trade deals, wants more talks-Wade
