Abdoulaye Wade News

La Scala opened its season with the gala premiere Monday evening of Bizet's "Carmen" conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the famed opera house's principal guest conductor.

Around 20,000 people marched in London on Saturday to protest against climate change ahead of a two week-long U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen starting on Monday.

An East 44th Street landlord has dropped a strongly worded lawsuit against the government of Senegal in which he claimed breach of contract and warned that his experience "should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about doing business with Senegal," and has instead moved ahead with the sale of 227 East 44th Street for $24.4 million , ...

David Robinson, professor of history and African studies at Michigan State, is collecting print, audio and video documentation of the Muslim people of Ghana and Senegal in an online archive.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, left, shakes hands with Korean President Lee Myung-bak during a summit meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul yesterday.

With presidential elections in Senegal still two years away, the tide is conspicuously turning against the ruling Parti Democratic Senegalais of the ageing and politically savvy Abdoulaye Wade.

Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Ma uritania , Mohamed Ould Oumarou, has been arrested by the country's anti-ec o nomic crimes police, sources told PANA here on Tuesday.

One of President Abdoulaye Wade's several great pan-African projects which the ageing Senegalese leader had wanted to meet the December 2009 deadline has turned out a fiasco, chiefly due to inadequate and timely funding.

African educators, policymakers and first ladies met in Dakar this week to discuss how to increase and improve early childhood development on the continent.

At an opposition protest Friday in Dakar, thousands demanded the resignation of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, whose admission of having given money to a departing IMF official has sparked indignation and accusations of corruption.

The new Cuban ambassador to the The Gambia, Her Excellency Ines Fors Fernenedez, yesterday afternoon presented her credential to the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh at State House in Banjul.

Thies, Senegal - President Abdoulaye Wade, 83, said on Wednesday that he was confident of re-election in 2012 for a third term as he faces a quiet opposition.

In this Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures to the media as he arrives to welcome Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, at the presidency office in Tehran.

In this Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures to the media as he arrives to welcome Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, at the presidency office in Tehran.

Senegal's president said Tuesday that his top aide gave nearly $200,000 "in error" to an International Monetary Fund representative as a parting gift.

17, 2009 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures to the media as he arrives to welcome Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, at the presidency office in Tehran.

Senegal has confirmed it gave money to an International Monetary Fund official this month, after days of speculation in local media.

Numerous civil rights organizations united today to join New Democrat Network to oppose an amendment proposed by David Vitter that would include a question on the U.S. census inquiring if the taker is a U.S. citizen.

Picture from meeting between Iran's supreme leader, Senegal president puts to rest rumors of Khamenei's death Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office released a picture of the leader from an official meeting he held Saturday with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.

Iran has received information that "some security agents" in Pakistan were cooperating with elements behind Sunday's attack on the Revolutionary Guards, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.