Former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade has offered to host Guinea’s deposed leader Alpha Conde in his villa in Senegal’s seaside capital Dakar. Conde, 83, was ousted in a military coup on September 5 after he cracked down on protests and won a controversial third presidential term last year. Guinea’s ruling[Read More…]
Author: AFP
Senegal’s Old Capital On The Frontline Against Rising Sea
In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay. When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometres along the coastline of the West African country’s former[Read More…]
Anger As Gambian President Allies With Ex-dictator’s Party
Gambian President Adama Barrow has stirred anger and confusion ahead of a December 4 presidential poll, after forming an electoral alliance with ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s political party. The pact has proved deeply controversial: Barrow himself ended Jammeh’s brutal rule in a 2016 election, sparking hopes of a new democratic era[Read More…]
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