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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 23 Jan 2012 : 14:15:19
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Senegal opposition to go ahead with rally
Published: Today
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal opposition leaders say they received last-minute government authorization to hold a demonstration against the aging president's bid for re-election.
The government previously said it would not authorize Monday's rally, setting up a potential clash because the opposition said it would demonstrate anyway.
Alioune Tine, one of the leaders of a coalition of groups calling for the departure of President Abdoulaye Wade, said Wade himself intervened to authorize the afternoon rally.
The U.S. Embassy has warned of unrest leading up to Friday's announcement by the constitutional council which is expected to validate Wade's candidacy in the February election. Wade is hoping to run for a third term, even though the constitution was revised to only allow two.
Source: 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 23 Jan 2012 : 16:04:33
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| If you are in Senegal during the time of the proposed Rally,it would probably be wiser not to attend. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2012 : 11:25:58
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JOLLOF NEWS;
SENEWEB TRANSLATED NEWS 23 JANUARY 2012;
"Wade filed his candidacy for president
The candidacy of Mr. Abdoulaye Wade for president of 26 February was filed Monday in the office of the Constitutional Council by his campaign manager, Prime Minister Souleymane Ndiaye Ndiaye Ndéné.
''We are optimistic about the admissibility (...). The bid meets all the requirements established by law,''said Mr. Ndiaye questioned by the RFM, on leaving the premises of the Constitutional Council.
He stressed that whatever the decision of the Constitutional Council, we will accept it,''inviting''minority''(opposition) to do the same.
Abdoulaye Wade, 86, is running for re-election despite a challenge which is being a candidate by the opposition, civil society and constitutional."
MAAFANTA.COM WITH;
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 00:00:36
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THE POINT EDITORIAL;
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 23:02:51
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JOLLOF ON-LINE NEWS;
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Momodou
Denmark
11734 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 14:33:36
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Youth flood square ahead of court decision
Published: Today
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Hundreds of youths flooded a downtown square in Senegal's capital, hours before the nation's highest court is supposed to render its verdict on whether the country's president of 11 years can run for a third term.
President Abdoulaye Wade turned in his application this week to be a candidate in the Feb. 26 presidential election. The constitution has a two-term limit, and the population has threatened to riot if the country's constitutional court approves his candidacy late Friday.
The minister of the interior earlier said all public demonstrations would be banned through early next week, but the government granted a last-minute reprieve on Friday. This came after the opposition threatened to go ahead with a rally regardless of whether the government gave it a permit.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 14:54:03
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Oh dear.....doesn't look good,I have a feeling that the next news will not be of a peaceful nature  |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 21:24:07
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Greed, greed, greed, nothing but greed. Abdoulaye Wade knows that senegal does not need him. He lied about settling the Cassamance problem in 10 months. Now 11 years on the situation is worst.
With a man Abdoulaye Wade's mentality and greed for power, there is no way he could help gambia out of Jammeh's cruel grips. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 21:51:30
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal braced itself for possible violence before the constitutional court decides Friday whether to allow the country's leader of 11 years to run for a third term even though the constitution was revised after he came to office to allow a maximum of two.
 The court is due to release the list of candidates running in next month's presidential election and the big question is whether President Abdoulaye Wade's name will be on it. Many worry that there could be violence if the five-judge council approves Wade's candidacy.
Police wearing fiberglass helmets took positions at strategic intersections in the capital. Businesses sent their employees home and schools invited parents to pick up their children early. Hundreds of youth carrying cardboard signs calling for the departure of Wade milled around a downtown square, where the opposition had called for a protest before the court's verdict.
Earlier this week, the 85-year-old Wade turned in his application to run in the Feb. 26 election, defying calls to step aside. For 25 years before he was elected in 2000, Wade, a lawyer with multiple degrees from French universities, was the country's opposition leader. He ran and lost in four elections before his victory 11 years ago which was hailed as a breakthrough for democracy on the continent and for a region better known for strongman rule.
Since then, the man that was considered an icon of democracy has come under mounting criticism, first for delegating increasing power to his son, and for the numerous corruption scandals that have overshadowed his administration's achievements, including the building of numerous roads and bridges.
In 2001, the government revised the constitution to impose a two-term limit and after winning a second term in 2007, Wade told reporters he would not seek a third term. He then reversed course, arguing that the term limits were imposed after he was elected, and that no law can be applied retroactively, so he should be allowed to run for a third term.
"I'm a lawyer too. And the constitution, it's me that revised it. All by myself. No one knows it better than me ... No one can interpret it better than me," Wade told the news portal Dakaractu.Com in an interview this week. "I was elected in 2000 on the basis of a law dating from 1963. After I was elected, I saw to it that a new constitution was adopted. Everyone knows that a law dictates the present, and the future, but it cannot be retroactive."
Senegal is considered one of the most mature democracies in Africa, and unlike many of its neighbors, its democratic tradition dates to even before independence from France 51 years ago. Starting in the mid-1800s, France allowed its colony to elect a deputy who served in the French parliament.
And in his official biography, Wade traces his roots to the Cayor kingdom located in Senegal's central plains, where kings were elected by a circle of elders rather than through a hereditary system common in many other parts of Africa.
"What shocks people is that he would try to run for a third term," says the country's leading investigative journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the editor-in-chief of The Gazette magazine who voted for Wade in 2000 but who is now supporting the opposition. "It's the problem of his age. It's the problem of the constitution. And to be frank, people are very scared that he will try to hand power to his son - which is something that the population does not want at all."
Hours before the court was due to release its verdict, Pape Sy circled the city looking for an open gas station. For three days, a fuel strike had closed down gas stations, adding yet another point of applied pressure. Finally in the Medina neighborhood of the capital, he pulled in behind the 13 other cars lined up head-to-toe at a Total station, which had just reopened. His gasoline gauge had already dipped below 0.
"Things don't smell good," he said, summing up the mood in the capital. "There are economic problems, and these other issues are attaching themselves onto that like pieces of Scotch tape. People want change. ... To me this really feels like the end of a reign."
Unlike nearly all its neighbors, Senegal does not have history of violent demonstrations, or of military intervention in state affairs. The country was shaken, however, by the riots that shut down the capital last summer when Wade's party attempted to rush a law through parliament that would have created the post of vice president, a move that critics said was as an attempt to create a mechanism of succession through which Wade could pass power to his son.
When it came time for the afternoon prayer in this predominantly Muslim nation, the young men that had gathered for the protest stopped to pray, kneeling on the sandy median, on the pavement and on the dais.
"People want Wade to leave," said Sy. "But they also want peace." |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 22:15:18
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Wade fumes:
"I'm a lawyer too. And the constitution, it's me that revised it. All by myself. No one knows it better than me ... No one can interpret it better than me," Wade told the news portal Dakaractu.Com in an interview this week. "I was elected in 2000 on the basis of a law dating from 1963. After I was elected, I saw to it that a new constitution was adopted. Everyone knows that a law dictates the present, and the future, but it cannot be retroactive."
Greedy, greedy, greedy, so greedy . |
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Momodou
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2012 : 12:52:11
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MAAFANTA.COM CULLED FROM SENEWEB SHARING;
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Edited by - kobo on 28 Jan 2012 12:55:30 |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 28 Jan 2012 : 13:19:32
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| I hope everyone thinks about the future of their homeland and the SYRIAN model is not seen as the norm. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Jan 2012 : 15:48:25
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SENEWEB TRANSLATED NEWS 28 JANUARY 2012;
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Momodou
Denmark
11734 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2012 : 19:25:24
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Senegal opposition wants protest against president
Published: 28/01/2012 18.41
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal's opposition is calling on the population to rise up against President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to run for a third term.
In a statement Saturday, the M23 coalition, which represents all the major opposition candidates running in next month's election, said the country's constitutional court had betrayed the people by ruling Wade is eligible to run again.
The decision Friday said the president can run for a third term even though the constitution was changed soon after he took office in 2000 to impose a two-term limit.
The M23 statement says "a black page has just been written in the history of our country by the decision."
Opposition candidate Macky Sall, a former prime minister under Wade, said they had given "the order" for people to take to the streets. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 29 Jan 2012 : 23:18:36
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Senegal opposition leads cortege to police station
RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and SADIBOU MARONE
Published: 29/01/2012 21.13
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The leaders of Senegal's opposition led a long cortege of cars to the capital's central police commissariat to protest the detention of a human rights activist.
Alioune Tine, the organizer of the anti-government protest Friday which turned violent after the country's top legal body validated President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term, was detained Saturday.
The constitution was revised after the 85-year-old Wade took office in 2000 to limit the number of terms to two. Wade argues the law is not retroactive and so cannot be applied to him since he took office before it took effect.
Late on Sunday, the constitutional council was meeting to consider the appeals submitted by opposition leaders who are calling into question the legality of Wade's candidacy. They are also considering an appeal submitted by music icon Youssou Ndour, whose application was disqualified because he allegedly did not turn in enough legal signatures on his petition to run for president.
The procession of cars descended along the capital's coastal highway, and surrounded the police station, located in a narrow side street in the downtown Plateau district near the presidential palace. On Saturday, the 52-year-old Ndour had tried to enter the building where Tine was being held, and a scuffle ensued when the police refused to let him in.
"We need to go get Alioune Tine," said El Hadj Diouf, an opposition leader who is a member of parliament. "If we don't react, those in power will prevent us from being at the forefront of our revolutionary battle." |
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