Identifier
Created
Classification
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06DAKAR486
2006-02-28 10:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:
TIDJANE BROTHERHOOD: TIVAOUANE OPENLY CRITICIZES WADE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 000486
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/11
TAGS: PGOV, KISL, PINR, SG
SUBJECT:TIDJANE BROTHERHOOD: TIVAOUANE OPENLY
CRITICIZES WADE
REFTEL: 04 DAKAR 2201
CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR ROY L. WHITAKER, FOR
REASONS 1.4 (B) and (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 000486
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/11
TAGS: PGOV, KISL, PINR, SG
SUBJECT:TIDJANE BROTHERHOOD: TIVAOUANE OPENLY
CRITICIZES WADE
REFTEL: 04 DAKAR 2201
CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR ROY L. WHITAKER, FOR
REASONS 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (SBU) The Tidjanes of Tivaouane, long privately
uncomfortable at President Wade's open obeisance to his
own Mouride Brotherhood Khalif, are now speaking out
openly. At the annual Tidjane Youth rally, spokesman
Abdou Aziz Sy, Junior, deplored government inattention
and neglect of Tidjanes. Two months earlier, in a
"short and undiplomatic" face-off with Prime Minster
Macky Sall, the austere and widely respected Tidjane
scholar and diplomat Serigne Mbaye Sy Mansour reportedly
charged that favoritism toward Mourides constituted
pandering for political gain and posed a risk to national
stability.
2. (C) The 2006 Youth Rally seemed more boisterous than
in 2005, when there was grumbling that Wade had dropped
observant Tidjane Idrissa Seck from the Cabinet but
little coherent political message. This year, Junior
seemed to be preparing for the 2007 campaign, and Wade,
in what some saw as deliberate provocation, sent as his
stand-in Seck's bitter enemy Minister of Agriculture
Farba Senghor. The crowd greeted Farba with a low hum,
which among courteous Tidjanes equates to the
raspberries, but he managed to eke out a bit of sympathy
by recalling that decades ago, Junior helped
oppositionist Wade when he needed money.
3. (C) Junior has been alerting us for a year that
Tidjane patience with Wade has its limits, and as the
leading but contested candidate to succeed his Khalif, he
must think it imperative to get in front of and channel
growing Tidjane resentments. MBaye Sy Mansour, though,
has no such ambitions but has lamented to us privately
that he considers Wade's government uninterested in the
general welfare and open to corruption. Outspokenness in
Tivaouane, as well as signs of discontent in the
independent Tidjane center of Kaolack (septel) could
signal an energetic Tidjane role in 2007 elections.
Senegal has more Tidjanes than Mourides; so both Wade and
Sech will consider their electoral clout and possibly
court them as the elections approach.
JACKSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/11
TAGS: PGOV, KISL, PINR, SG
SUBJECT:TIDJANE BROTHERHOOD: TIVAOUANE OPENLY
CRITICIZES WADE
REFTEL: 04 DAKAR 2201
CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR ROY L. WHITAKER, FOR
REASONS 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (SBU) The Tidjanes of Tivaouane, long privately
uncomfortable at President Wade's open obeisance to his
own Mouride Brotherhood Khalif, are now speaking out
openly. At the annual Tidjane Youth rally, spokesman
Abdou Aziz Sy, Junior, deplored government inattention
and neglect of Tidjanes. Two months earlier, in a
"short and undiplomatic" face-off with Prime Minster
Macky Sall, the austere and widely respected Tidjane
scholar and diplomat Serigne Mbaye Sy Mansour reportedly
charged that favoritism toward Mourides constituted
pandering for political gain and posed a risk to national
stability.
2. (C) The 2006 Youth Rally seemed more boisterous than
in 2005, when there was grumbling that Wade had dropped
observant Tidjane Idrissa Seck from the Cabinet but
little coherent political message. This year, Junior
seemed to be preparing for the 2007 campaign, and Wade,
in what some saw as deliberate provocation, sent as his
stand-in Seck's bitter enemy Minister of Agriculture
Farba Senghor. The crowd greeted Farba with a low hum,
which among courteous Tidjanes equates to the
raspberries, but he managed to eke out a bit of sympathy
by recalling that decades ago, Junior helped
oppositionist Wade when he needed money.
3. (C) Junior has been alerting us for a year that
Tidjane patience with Wade has its limits, and as the
leading but contested candidate to succeed his Khalif, he
must think it imperative to get in front of and channel
growing Tidjane resentments. MBaye Sy Mansour, though,
has no such ambitions but has lamented to us privately
that he considers Wade's government uninterested in the
general welfare and open to corruption. Outspokenness in
Tivaouane, as well as signs of discontent in the
independent Tidjane center of Kaolack (septel) could
signal an energetic Tidjane role in 2007 elections.
Senegal has more Tidjanes than Mourides; so both Wade and
Sech will consider their electoral clout and possibly
court them as the elections approach.
JACKSON