By LYDIA POLGREENPublished: March 2, 2007DAKAR, Senegal, March 1 — President Abdoulaye Wade easily won a second term, electoral officials in Senegal announced Thursday, beating his 14 opponents in the first round of voting with nearly 56 percent of the 3.4 million votes cast in Sunday’s election.
It was a decisive victory for the president, who […]

Workers putting up posters of Abdoulaye WadeMarch 01, 2007, 21:15Abdoulaye Wade, the Senegalese president has easily won re-election to a second term with nearly 56 percent of votes in Sunday’s high-turnout election, according to provisional results announced today. The octogenarian president, known as "the hare" for his wily political cunning, won nearly four times as […]

Fri Mar 2, 2007 8:32 AM GMT29By Diadie BaDAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday’s election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
The octogenarian president, who has ruled the West African state since 2000, won […]

FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)March 1, 2007Posted to the web March 2, 2007Baboucarr CeesayDakar
OFFICIAL RESULTS PENDING
After casting his vote at point E, Dakar, Wade swaggered that there will be no second round. He said "I am optimistic and I think that I will win in the first round. I think so because there is a great mobilization […]

FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)March 1, 2007Posted to the web March 2, 2007The West Africa Network of Peace Building (WANEP) Gambia has declared the recently concluded Senegalese presidential elections as free, fair and transparent. This is contained in a preliminary report it issued on 25th February in which it states: "Following our observations in a number of […]

FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)March 1, 2007Posted to the web March 2, 2007The Senegalese High Commissioner to the Gambia, Momodou Fall, has informed journalists that President Abdoulaye Wade has polled 4533 votes out of the total number of 6500 votes cast by the Senegalese electorate in the Gambia.
Fall made this statement at a press conference held at […]

Democracy in Dakar, Episode 3: Election Day
Sunday, February 25, 2007 - Election Day in Senegal, West Africa. Episode 3 takes place on election day and follows the group Sen Kumpe as they head to the voting station in their neighborhood Medina in Dakar to vote.
The episode continues in the immediate aftermath of the election, […]

Taku Defarat
Holding
his final meeting in his stronghold, Ziguinchor, Robert Sagna
explaining what motivates him to contest as a President candidate
outlined his main concerns for prevailing peace in Casamance. The
candidate of Coalition Takku Defarat Senegal reiterated that one of his
major concerns is the restoration of peace in Casamance.
He
told the Casamançais to regard themselves as Senegalese, to claim […]

Dakar - The candidate for Senegal’s main opposition party said on
Tuesday that he would contest election results showing President
Abdoulaye Wade had been re-elected in a first round of voting.
"We will not accept these results because we do not regard him as
having been elected by the Senegalese people," Aissata Tall Sall,
spokesperson for Socialist Party candidate Ousmane […]

Two leading presidential candidates in Senegal say
they do not accept unofficial results that show incumbent Abdoulaye
Wade has won Sunday’s polls.

Partial results indicate that Mr Wade, 81, has more than
55% of the vote making a run-off unnecessary, Senegal’s official news
agency reports.

But Ousmane Tanor Dieng and Abdoulaye Bathily say there were irregularities.

Analysts say that it will be […]