| Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Students Call for President to Step Down [IPS] Dakar - The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master's student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term of office. | ... | Bafana Bafana to Play Senegal in Durban [SAFA] The South African Football Association (SAFA) wishes to announce that Bafana Bafana will play an international friendly match against the Teranga Lions of Senegal. The clash will take place on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Durban. | ... | Austrian Envoy Meets Local Counterpart [Concord] Austria's Ambassador to Senegal who is also accredited to Sierra Leone, HE Gerhard Diess Wednesday paid a courtesy call on his Sierra Leonean counterpart Khadijatu Bassir at the Sierra Leone embassy in Dakar. | ... | For Crying Out Loud, Leave Nation Alone - Go Home Grandpa Wade [Monitor] How the Senegalese, especially those thronging the streets and getting fatally shot at, must be wishing that Mr Abdoulaye Wade would just disappear, preferably six feet under. The man, however, wants a third seven-year term. | ... | Wade shrugs off Western pressure Dakar - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, whose reelection bid has drawn fierce criticism abroad, said in his opening campaign rally that France and the United States had no right to ask him to step aside. | “I do not seek the interest of the toubabs (Westerners... | Larry Lamb's holiday heaven and hell Larry Lamb, the actor, on trekking in Nepal, spartan Lebanese hostels, and being struck down with malaria in Senegal. | Image 1 of 2 "I cannot stand being stuck in a market or on a beach overwhelmed with tourists. In terms of materials, I just need... | Hubris May Snare Senegal's Wily 'Hare' Wade [Citizen] I will tread on no corpses to get to the presidential palace," Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade once declared from the opposition benches in a famous pledge to win power by democratic means. But 12 years after he gained the presidency of the West African nation throug... | | |
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