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Ousmane Sonko’s Latest Silly Manoeuvre
Referring to the fate of Ousmane Sonko‘s bodyguards, arrested following the Tchiky incidents, clashes in which they had assaulted people chanting the name of…
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Qatar Might Even Be Accused of Buying the Sky
Qatari leaders have made no secret of their megalomania or have not hidden the amount of the budget allocated to the hosting of the…
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I Won’t Give in to Any Blackmail
These days, videos have been circulating on social media, showing me standing in Ngor, surrounded by a group of four excited youths who were…
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Macky Sall, An Unavoidable Player in 2024
As soon as the results of the presidential election of February 24, 2019, were known, that is to say as soon as the re-election…
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A Bad Month for Populism
It appears the promised red wave was no more than a timid ripple that the GOP won’t be riding to a majority in the…
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« Nemekou Tour »… Dereet*: No More Blood Shed, No DNA Test for Sonko
Ousmane Sonko was heard, on November 3, 2022, on the merits of the rape case between him and Adji Raby Sarr. The hearing went…
Opinion
A Thousand Lashes for How Many Senegalese Men?
A video that has gone viral on social networks and other news sites in recent days shows a public punishment session for a woman…
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If I had advice to give to Mimi
I had facilitated the reunion between President Macky Sall and Mme Aminata Touré, after the noise following her sacking, in November 2020, from the…
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Illegitimate Anger Follows a Predictable Debacle
I find myself astonished at the astonishment of the Senegalese people at the spectacle that our honorable deputies presented to us during the inauguration…
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What if the Magic of Football Blows Into the Spirit of Macky Sall
The Football World Cup is the most popular trophy. Before each competition, this work by the Italian artist, Silvio Gazzaniga, cast in gold weighing…
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Senegalese opposition: « Do as I say, but not as I do »
Opposition leaders fail to live up up to their word once more, and won’t apply their own standards to themselves. Almost all of these…
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Ousmane Sonko or Frankenstein’s Monster
It is as if many important voices of the media, civil society and the political opposition have suddenly come out of a long collective…
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