Tag: Senegal

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OPINION: How Mimi Toure’s dream of becoming the first-ever female Speaker of Senegal’s National Assembly faded away!

Drama unfolded at the National Assembly of Senegal last week during the election of Speaker (President) of the former French colony’s 14th Legislature when the ruling coalition Benno Bokk Yaakaar, elected Dr. Amadou Mame Diop as Speaker instead of their head of Campagne Mrs. Aminata Mimi Toure, former Prime Minister […]

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Thiowlii Thiowlii: Mimi Toure to set up a political movement dubbed MIMI, plans to contest the 2024 Presidential Election

Senegal’s leading online news site Seneweb is reporting that the former Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014) Aminata Toure widely known as Mimi Toure is planning to set up her own political movement called «Mimi» (Mouvement pour l’intégrité, le mérite et l’indépendance), plans to contest 2024 Presidential election.“Mimi” which stands for […]

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Interesting!! Dakar Municipal Councillor asks for Ousman Sonko’s hand in marriage in a teasing tone before Mayor Barthelemy Diaz and Others

Senegal’s leading online platform Seneweb is reporting the sequence between Aida Sopi Niang and Ousmane Sonko at Barthélémy Dias’s house, which has set the web ablaze.  In a teasing tone, the young lady asks the audience to celebrate her marriage with the leader of Pastef. Aida Sopi Niang is a […]

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Senegal: Director General of ASEPEX resigns

The director general of Senegalese Export Promotion Agency (ASEPEX) Dr. Malick Diop has resigned on Monday, 19th September 2022. According to Senegal’s leading online news site Seneweb, Dr. Malick Diop, who was recently elected as a member of the National Assembly resigned from his position as Director General of ASEPEX […]