The director of Amnesty International in Senegal Seydi Gassama has reacted to the arrest and detention of Senegal’s opposition politician Bougane Gueye Dany who was arrested on Saturday, 19th October 2024 whilst on his way to Bakkel in eatsern Senegal. Bougane and other opposition figures such as Thierno Boccoum and Anta […]
Fatoumatta: Gambian home-based scholars and intellectuals must embrace the ‘publish or perish’ ethos and adopt a macro rather than micro perspective to achieve global recognition like their peers, but not in obscurity. Alagi Yorro Jallow. I’m not very familiar with Dr. Mbye Kebba Kah. I haven’t encountered him on any […]
The president of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dissolved the National Assembly of Senegal on Thursday 12 September, 2024, two years to the day after the deputies took office. The President of the Republic made the decision in a decree signed on Thursday. The idea of dissolving the National Assembly has […]
Amadou Ba, a former Presidential Candidate in the recently concluded Senegalese presidential election has announced the formation of a new political party. Mr. Ba was the candidate of the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition of the former President Macky Sall. He lost the election to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who won […]