Senegal’s women voters could make a miracle happen in presidential election | Elections News

Senegal’s women voters could make a miracle happen in presidential election | Elections News

ByNews Polite

Popenguine-Ndayane is home to me. This small fishing village on the Atlantic coast some 100km (62 miles) from Senegal’s capital, Dakar, is a site of pilgrimage for the country’s Christian minority. For the past 135 years, pilgrims – including the pope – have travelled here to pray at a site where…

After 12 years in power, Senegal’s Macky Sall leaves a fragile democracy | Elections

After 12 years in power, Senegal’s Macky Sall leaves a fragile democracy | Elections

ByNews Polite

Dakar, Senegal – A year after his 2012 inauguration as Senegal’s fourth president, Macky Sall delivered a compelling speech – half in French, half in English – at Harvard University in the United States. Sall had won the presidency after a cut-throat election campaign against his mentor and former President…