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| 01DAKAR2990 | PRESIDENT WADE SEIZES OPPORTUNITY TO [...] (U) ON AUGUST 28, SENEGALESE AUTHORITIES REFUSED PERMISSION TO APPROXIMATELY 100 YOUNG WOMEN TO BOARD A LIBYAN CHARTERED AIRCRAFT, WHICH APPARENTLY LANDED WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORIZATION, AND WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY TAKING THE WOMEN TO LIBYA TO PARTICIPATE IN A CULTURAL EVENT CELEBRATING THE THIRTY-S [...] |
2001-09-07 16:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SG |
| 01VATICAN6322 | BIO INFO FOR GIUSEPPE PINTO - NEW VATICAN [...] THE POPE HAS APPOINTED ITALIAN PRIEST, MONSIGNOR GIUSEPPE PINTO, AS NUNCIO (AMBASSADOR) IN SENEGAL AND APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN MAURITANIA. PINTO IS CURRENTLY THE ARGENTINA-CHILE DESK OFFICER AT THE VATICAN FOREIGN OFFICE. HE WAS BORN IN 1952 AND ORDAINED A PRIEST IN 1978. MONSIGNOR [...] |
2001-12-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SG MR VT |
| 03ABUJA1497 | MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER: APCS, WARRI, MPRI [...] (S/NF) CDA delivered REF A demarche on APCs for ECOMIL to Minister of Defense Kwankwaso on 29 August. Kwankwaso said he had not heard of Ghana's request that the GON provide APCs for the Ghanaian ECOMIL battalion. Kwankwaso and MOD PermSec Kaigama indicated the GON would consider the Ghanaia [...] |
2003-08-29 18:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MCAP LI ML SG GH NI |
| 03ABUJA566 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO DISAVOWS HIS MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary: During a midnight March 21 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo distanced the GON from Minister of State Onyia's accusation that the U.S. had cut military assistance because of Nigeria's position on Iraq. Obasanjo also expressed surprise at Washington's negative react [...] |
2003-03-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM SF SG IZ NI |
| 03HANOI1422 | VIETNAM REACHING OUT TO AFRICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As another symbol of how Vietnam prizes the diversity of its diplomatic contacts and seeks to maintain its third world credentials, the GVN hosted the first Vietnam - Africa Forum in Hanoi May 28-30. Delegations from 18 African countries discussed trade and investment and "opp [...] |
2003-06-10 09:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID IV NI MA GV PU BN SG ZI RW AO SF MO WA CM VM MZ |
| 04DJIBOUTI452 | DJIBOUTI'S MFA HIGHLIGHTS MOVE TOWARDS MILLENNIUM [...] (C) In Ambassador's recent meeting with Mahmoud Yusuf Ali, Minister for Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ali stated that he believed all U.S. criteria and standards under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) were achievable for Djibouti. Democracy, he said, is Djibouti's ulti [...] |
2004-03-28 12:33:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PHUM SCUL LE SG DJ |
| 05CAIRO4681 | NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE AND GOVERNMENT OF [...] (U) Summary: Officials representing the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) signed a peace agreement on June 18 in Cairo potentially paving the way for the NDA to participate in the Sudanese Unity Government, scheduled to be formed by July 9, 2005. The "Cai [...] |
2005-06-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID EG SG |
| 05DAKAR3184 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 16, Senegal,s National Assembly passed a provisional constitutional amendment, extending deputies, terms in office from June 2006 until February 2007. President Abdoulaye Wade, whose goal was to delay legislative elections in order to couple them with the presidenti [...] |
2005-12-23 13:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM SG |
| 05DAKAR3185 | SENEGAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT: GREAT HARVEST DOES NOT [...] SUMMARY: Quarterly Ministry of Finance statistics for the last trimester confirm that the strongest contributors to economic growth continue to be government capital investments and remittance-fueled consumer spending. The banking sector,s contribution to facilitating formal sector capital i [...] |
2005-12-23 15:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ETRD EFIN EINV SG |
| 05DAKAR3208 | JOURNALIST ACCUSES PRESIDENT WADE OF MURDER [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent book entitled "The Judge Seye Affair: A Contract Killing," journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly accuses President Wade of instigating the assassination of Supreme Court Judge Babacar Seye. Pape Ibrahima Diakhate, Assane Diop and Cledor Sene, shot Judge Seye on May 15, 19 [...] |
2005-12-28 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SG |
| 05DAKAR3213 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is on the verge of entering a year-long election campaign leading up to the 2007 elections. The Senegalese are proud to be a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the U [...] |
2005-12-29 12:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KMCA KPKO SG |
| 05MADRID1727 | SPANISH POLICE REPORT 16 ARRESTS FOR TRAFFICKING [...] All major Spanish dailies are reporting that Spanish National Police (SNP) authorities in the Canary Islands announced May 5 that 16 people from Spain and Cape Verde had been arrested on suspicion of trafficking children from the Cape Verde Islands through the Canary Islands to France. The S [...] |
2005-05-06 09:50:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SP FR GA CV SG PO |
| 05PARIS439 | FRANCE AND WEST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the last of a series of messages (reftels) briefly summarizing French relations with African nations. For the last two years, France's Africa policy has, of necessity, been focused on the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. Two years after France hosted the Linas-Marcoussis and Kleb [...] |
2005-01-25 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BN UV CV GA GH GV PU IV LI ML MR NG NI SG SL TO XY FR |
| 06ABUJA1605 | ABUJA APPROVES RESEARCH PROJECT NO. AI069919 01 [...] The U.S. Mission Abuja appreciates the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) patience concerning the Mission's reply to ref proposed research project. 2. The U.S. Mission Abuja has reviewed ref proposed NIH Research Project No. AI069919 01 -- to be carried out in part in Nigeria. The Missi [...] |
2006-06-26 16:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI KSCA BN IV GA ML NI SG |
| 06ABUJA2100 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-15 10:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PREL PTER SG UNSC IS LE |
| 06BANJUL121 | THE GAMBIA: RAPPROCHEMENT WITH SENEGAL CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Judging from reported official Senegalese/Gambian contacts of late, the two countries' rapprochement process following their August/October 2005 crisis over transport and border issues continues to advance (ref a provides background on the crisis). Building on Gambian President Jammeh's [...] |
2006-02-27 17:55:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ELTN EWWT GA SG |
| 06BANJUL171 | THE GAMBIA: CONSULTATIONS WITH SENEGALESE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-20 12:43:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS GA SG |
| 06BANJUL172 | THE GAMBIA: CONSULTATIONS WITH SENEGALESE ON [...] (U) Amidst reported clashes between the Bissau-Guinean military and Casamance MFDC rebels (reftel), a Senegalese delegation visited The Gambia March 17 and met with President Yayha Jammeh to discuss the Casamance situation. The delegation was headed by Pierre Kujabi, identified as an architec [...] |
2006-03-20 12:53:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS GA SG |
| 06BANJUL209 | LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM GAMBIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) On April 5, 2006, Embassy received a letter, dated March 29, 2006, from Gambian President Jammeh to President Bush alleging the Senegalese Government's support for the recent abortive coup d'tat in The Gambia (ref a). Post will provide the text in this cable and forward the original to Wa [...] |
2006-04-05 16:39:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS OPDC GA SG |
| 06BANJUL212 | THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON AFTERMATH OF [...] (C) In April 6 meeting with senior presidential adviser, Secretary General Njie, Ambassador reiterated our concern SIPDIS over reports of detainees' mistreatment, detention of National Assembly Speaker and others, and private newspaper's closure in connection with the recent aborted coup at [...] |
2006-04-06 17:34:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL222 | THE GAMBIA: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS FOLLOWING FOILED [...] (C) President Jammeh continues his efforts to demonstrate that he remains in charge and that the public is rallying around him, while opposition parties issued a statement April 9 expressing doubt about the GOTG's capacity to "manage the apparent crisis." There are signs of disarray at the N [...] |
2006-04-10 17:19:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL225 | THE GAMBIA: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON DETAINEES [...] (C) Ambassador met April 13 with Foreign Minister's deputy, William Joof, to reiterate our concern over authorities' reported abuses following the March 21 aborted coup plot and to reiterate our request for prompt access to detained American citizen (dual national) Tamsir Jasseh (ref a). (NOTE [...] |
2006-04-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PROG PREL PHUM PINS CASC ASEC KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL227 | THE GAMBIA; VISIT BY SENEGALESE FORMIN [...] (SBU) Senegalese Formin Cheikh Tidiane Gadio visited Banjul April 12 and met with President Jammeh, telling the press afterward that he had brought a message of "solidarity" from President Wade to Jammeh following the coup plot thwarted here March 21 (refs a and b). Gadio took the occasion t [...] |
2006-04-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS GA SG |
| 06BANJUL230 | THE GAMBIA: GROWING TENSIONS WITH SENEGAL OVER [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 10. SUMMARY 2. (C) GOTG convoked diplomatic corps April 13 to protest GOS' alleged failure to cooperate with the Gambians' investigation into the coup plot thwarted March 21 as well. In a well-worn GOTG accusation, Gambian officials alleged that [...] |
2006-04-14 14:25:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS GA SG |
| 06BANJUL233 | THE GAMBIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER REMOVED, [...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker, Sheriff Dibba, suspected of involvement in the failed coup plot, was released from detention April 15, but removed from the National Assembly by President Jammeh. A senior National Intelligence Agency official, Keemo Balajo, was also released and his job res [...] |
2006-04-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL24 | THE GAMBIA: READOUT ON CONSULTATIONS WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Taal provided upbeat readout on the December 28-29 session of the Senegalese/Gambian Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), explaining the decision to place the Gambia River bridge project under the auspices of the "Gambia River Basin Development Organizati [...] |
2006-01-11 17:27:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ELTN EWWT SG GA |
| 06BANJUL249 | THE GAMBIA: MORE DETAINEES RELEASED, OTHER [...] (C) The General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, "Independent," are among detainees released April 20 and ostensibly cleared of involvement in the aborted coup plot March 21. Ambassador met April 21 with Interior Minister Jatta and pressed again for access to Amcit detainee and for [...] |
2006-04-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL250 | THE GAMBIA: REPORTED MFDC CLASHES NEAR GAMBIAN [...] (C) During April 21 discussion with Ambassador, Interior Minister Baboucar Jatta took an urgent phone call from his Inspector General of Police. Afterward, Jatta said the Inspector General had reported acts of violence near The Gambia's border with the Casamance region, involving forces of di [...] |
2006-04-21 17:13:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG GA |
| 06BANJUL252 | THE GAMBIA: FURTHER DEMARCHE ON ACCESS TO AMCIT, [...] (C) Ambassador met April 24 with Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary William Joof and repeated previous requests for SIPDIS access to Amcit Tamsir Jasseh, detained for suspected involvement in the March 21 aborted coup plot (ref a). Ambassador stressed dismay at the delay in our obtaining a [...] |
2006-04-24 17:30:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG |
| 06BANJUL253 | THE GAMBIA: FURTHER REPORT OF FIGHTING NEAR [...] (SBU) Reftel contains GOTG report of April 21 outbreak of violence, possibly involving forces of dissident MFDC commander Salif Sadio, in the Casamance region near the border with The Gambia. Subsequently, on April 25, a knowledgeable source, present in the Gambian village of Ndemba Jola, loca [...] |
2006-04-25 16:58:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS PREF SG GA |
| 06BANJUL259 | THE GAMBIA: MORE ON REPORTED FIGHTING NEAR GAMBIAN [...] (SBU) In April 26 conversation, Ambassador asked Interior Minister Baboucar Jatta about situation along The Gambia's border with Senegal's Casamance region, following recent reports of fighting -- most recently during night of April 24-25 -- in that area, involving forces of dissident MFDC com [...] |
2006-04-26 17:50:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS PREF CASC SG GA |
| 06BANJUL273 | THE GAMBIA: SUSPECTS IN COUP PLOT CHARGED, [...] (C) Seventeen suspects in the failed coup plot are finally charged, as the GOTG continues to press the GOS for access to the plot's ringleader. END SUMMARY DETAINEES CHARGED ------------------ 2. (U) On April 28, 17 detainees suspected of involvement in the coup plot thwarted here Marc [...] |
2006-05-03 11:48:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PHUM GA SG |
| 06BANJUL317 | THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TIES WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) In May 18 conversation with senior Presidential adviser, Secretary General Mambury Njie, Ambassador asked for an update on the Gambian/Senegalese relationship. Njie responded that ties remained strained, saying the GOTG continued to harbor suspicions of GOS involvement in the coup plot th [...] |
2006-05-18 15:56:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG GA |
| 06BANJUL329 | THE GAMBIA: TIES WITH NIGERIA, SENEGAL, IRAN [...] (C) Nigerian President Obasanjo reportedly indicated May 19 a willingness to engage in renewed mediation between The Gambia and Senegal. The May 20 visit here by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister was part of a "charm offensive" by Tehran in West Africa, according to Gambian official. END SUMMAR [...] |
2006-05-23 18:23:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GA SG NI IR AU |
| 06BANJUL332 | THE GAMBIA: TIES WITH NIGERIA, SENEGAL, IRAN [...] (C) Nigerian President Obasanjo reportedly indicated May 19 a willingness to engage in renewed mediation between The Gambia and Senegal. The May 20 visit here by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister was part of a "charm offensive" by Tehran in West Africa, according to Gambian official. END SUMMARY [...] |
2006-05-24 10:27:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GA SG NI IR AU |
| 06BANJUL333 | THE GAMBIA: TIES WITH NIGERIA, SENEGAL, IRAN [...] (C) Nigerian President Obasanjo reportedly indicated May 19 a willingness to engage in renewed mediation between The Gambia and Senegal. The May 20 visit here by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister was part of a "charm offensive" by Tehran in West Africa, according to Gambian official. END SUMMARY [...] |
2006-05-24 10:27:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GA SG NI IR AU |
| 06BANJUL366 | THE GAMBIA: RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S REQUEST [...] (C) In recent discussion with Ambassador, the senior Presidential adviser, Secretary General Mambury Njie and Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary William Joof, raised the GOTG's previous request that the U.S. press Senegal to cooperate with the Gambians' investigation into the aborted coup att [...] |
2006-06-09 16:09:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SG GA |
| 06BANJUL394 | THE GAMBIA: VISIT BY SENEGALESE PRESIDENT WADE [...] (U) On June 19, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade made a two-hour visit to Banjul, meeting with his Gambian counterpart, President Yahya Jammeh. In media remarks afterward, Wade indicated that he had come with a two-fold mission: to ascertain what assistance the GOS might provide the GOTG i [...] |
2006-06-20 13:49:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AU GA SG |
| 06BANJUL436 | THE GAMBIA: JAMMEH'S PITCH TO UNSYG ANNAN ON [...] (C) In conversation with Ambassador, UN Development Program Resident Representative Fadzai Gwaradzimba (protect) mentioned UNSYG Annan's meeting with President Jammeh on the margins of the July 1-2 African Union Summit here. The UNDP rep, who attended the meeting, confided that Jammeh had used [...] |
2006-07-10 16:09:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG GA |
| 06BANJUL451 | THE GAMBIA: IMPROVED TENOR OF RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (C) In July 14 discussion with Ambassador, recently-arrived Senegalese Ambassador Mamadou Fall spoke of an improved tenor of late in the Gambian/Senegalese relationship and cited as illustrative Senegalese President Wade's June 19 visit to Banjul (ref a) and his subsequent attendance at the Ju [...] |
2006-07-15 12:26:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG GA |
| 06BANJUL526 | REFUGEES FROM SENEGAL'S CASAMANCE REGION STREAMING [...] (C) As reported in ref A, the fighting that erupted between Senegal's military and MFDC rebels in Senegal's Casamance region has resulted in a large influx of refugees into The Gambia. According to our sources, the estimated number of refugees ranges from 2500 to 4500, with the latter being m [...] |
2006-08-23 17:18:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PHUM PINS SG PU PREL GA |
| 06BANJUL574 | THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TIES WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) In September 15 discussion, Senegalese Ambassador Fall cited the improved tenor in Senegalese/Gambian ties in recent months, expressed certainty that Gambian President Jammeh would win re-election September 22 by a comfortable margin, and knocked down rumors of close ties between Senegalese [...] |
2006-09-16 10:33:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF MOPS PINS SG GA |
| 06BANJUL695 | THE GAMBIA: ONGOING TENSIONS WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) Senegalese Ambassador Fall noted heightened Sengalese/Gambian strains due to GOTG's support for dissident Casamance rebel MFDC leader Salif Sadio, coupled with Gambian actions against pro-conciliation MFDC elements such as Magne Dieme. Fall said Senegalese armed forces chief would visit h [...] |
2006-11-09 15:30:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PINS SG GA |
| 06BANJUL708 | THE GAMBIA: SENEGALESE VISITORS, JAMMEH'S [...] (C) President Jammeh used high-level Senegalese visits to deny -- unconvincingly -- meddling in the Casamance and profess his commitment to good ties with Senegal. Senegalese Chief of Defense Staff spoke of plans to conclude a MOU with the Gambian military to strengthen cooperation via, inter [...] |
2006-11-20 18:32:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS GA SG |
| 06BANJUL761 | THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S INAUGURATION [...] (C) The December 15 inauguration of President Jammeh's third term featured pomp and ceremony, and the bombastic leader used the occasion to portray The Gambia as a future "economic superpower," while also requesting Gambians' "forgiveness." Four African heads of state (Nigeria, Togo, Mauritan [...] |
2006-12-20 15:15:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KMCA GA IR SG |
| 06DAKAR1004 | GUINEA-BISSAU: BORDER CALMING DOWN FOR NOW [...] (U) Fighting in northern Guinea-Bissau has mostly ended with all rebel bases overrun by the Bissau-Guinean military. A new wave of displaced flooded into isolated Susana during the final push, but others have begun returning home to Sao Domingos, where life is returning to normal. The World F [...] |
2006-04-26 16:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINS EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PU SG |
| 06DAKAR1005 | CASAMANCE: CHIEF REBEL STRONGER THAN ANTICIPATED [...] (SBU) Beginning in mid-March the Bissau-Guinean military lent a helping hand to Senegal, putting into execution its threat to cleanse the border area of Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) recalcitrant Salif Sadio and his supporters. Bissau- Guinean troops have succeeded in [...] |
2006-04-26 17:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PINS PGOV PREL PU SG |
| 06DAKAR1011 | WADE'S ELECTORAL PROSPECTS UNSURE IN EAST AND SOUTH [...] (C) Ten months before presidential and parliamentary elections, there is broad disenchantment with President Wade in Senegal's East and South. Were the election held now, he would likely lose in sparsely populated Tambacounda Region. In Kolda and Ziguinchor, he needs to discipline his ruling [...] |
2006-04-26 18:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SG |
| 06DAKAR1021 | SUDAN: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR NATO ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-27 15:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PKPO SU SG |
| 06DAKAR1034 | SENEGAL: COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP MEETING ON [...] DELETE THIS MESSAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED MCN'S NEW MESSAGE SENT OUT WITH NEW MCN AND NEW DTG. DAKAR 00001034 002.4 OF 002 ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR Â [...] |
2006-04-28 11:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SNAR CVIS KCRM KISL EAIR UN PU SG |
| 06DAKAR1039 | SENEGAL: COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP MEETING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 27 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting in Dakar focused as much on narcotics as it did on ideological radicalization. DCM drew on Ref A talking points and briefed the CTAG on counter-terrorism training that we have conducted in 2006. DCM noted that we are [...] |
2006-05-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SNAR CVIS KCRM KISL EAIR UN PU SG |
| 06DAKAR1086 | TRAVEL, DARFUR, MCA AND U.S. ASSISTANCE ON WADE'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Wade asked the Ambassador to meet with him on May 4. The 30-minute meeting covered his upcoming trip to the United States, France and Switzerland; a potential official trip later this year to meet with President Bush and to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) C [...] |
2006-05-08 15:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP EAID KMCA PHUM SG |
| 06DAKAR1100 | WHAT DID SENEGALESE DO BEFORE THEY HAD CANDLES?; [...] (U) SUMMARY: The latest political joke making the rounds in Dakar these days is: "What did Senegalese do before they had candles? ... They had electricity." Unfortunately, Senegal's chronic electricity shortages are no laughing matter and continue to have adverse economic, social and politi [...] |
2006-05-10 08:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET SG |
| 06DAKAR1149 | THERE'S TALK OF ANOTHER ELECTION POSTPONEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Some in the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) say poor logistics will require technical postponement of the February presidential and parliamentary elections to June 2007, past expiration of Wade's constitutional term. We have told them we would find that unacceptable. The opposit [...] |
2006-05-15 15:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR1169 | INFANTICIDE IN SENEGAL [...] (U) Senegalese are appalled at increasing media reports of infanticide. Though the practice seems to be limited, actual statistics are shaky. Factors which might lead parents to resort to the practice include poverty, emigration of the father, incest, the Islamic practices of polygamy and e [...] |
2006-05-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI SG |
| 06DAKAR1204 | PRIME MINISTER SALL COMMENTS ON MCA, ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Prime Minister Macky Sall to discuss the status of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP) and election preparations. The Prime Minister stressed that the MCA Compact is the GOS, highest prio [...] |
2006-05-18 17:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PINR PINS PREL KMCA KHDP SG |
| 06DAKAR1205 | FOUR HIGH LEVEL POLITICAL ARRESTS IN SENEGAL [...] (U) In the past two months, there have been a series of high profile arrests of political figures. Labor leader Ibrahima Sene (Reftel), Amath Dansokho, Secretary General of the Labor Party (PIT), Jean Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and Pape Diouf, Mayor of the City of Bambey, [...] |
2006-05-18 18:44:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR1246 | SENEGAL ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KUNR OPDC UN SG |
| 06DAKAR1256 | DEMARCHES TO NAM/G-77 ON UN REFORM AND IRAN IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-24 17:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KUNR UNSC UNGA IR SG |
| 06DAKAR1268 | PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL REPRESENTS WATERSHED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 2, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade convened an extraordinary Presidential Council to review the status of Senegal's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal. Prime Minister Macky Sall, most Ministers, heads of major independent agencies, representatives of mult [...] |
2006-05-30 15:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND KMCA SOCI SG |
| 06DAKAR1270 | SENEGAL'S ACCELERATED GROWTH STRATEGY (AGS) AND [...] (SBU) The Minister of Finance met with the donors to update them on the development of Senegal's Accelerated Growth Strategy (AGS) on March 22. The Government intends to finalize and implement the strategy on July 1, but donors have not heard what changes have been made over the last two mon [...] |
2006-05-30 16:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR SG |
| 06DAKAR1280 | THE CORNICHE HEMMED: WILL VOTERS SWALLOW WADE'S [...] (U) Two of three major roads leading through the Dakar peninsula and downtown are closed by construction. Using Kuwaiti funds for the next Islamic summit and on short notice, President Wade on May 10 began tunnel projects and road widening on the well-known Corniche, redirected traffic to al [...] |
2006-05-31 13:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PGOV ECON PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR1292 | AN INCIDENT OF PRE-ELECTORAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE [...] (U) On May 28, in Prime Minister Macky Sall's hometown of Fatick, the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) youth movement mixed it up with followers of Serigne Mamoune Niasse, the partially blind marabout from nearby Kaolack who is backing ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck's presidential cam [...] |
2006-06-01 12:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR1299 | SENEGALESE REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On June 1, the Ambassador and DCM called on President Wade to deliver Ref A points orally, leaving him a copy of the transcript of the Secretary,s press conference. The Ambassador reminded Wade that they had discussed his planned visit to Iran when the Ambassador presented her credentials [...] |
2006-06-01 14:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH IR SG |
| 06DAKAR1306 | WADE SEEKS U.S. INTERVENTION WITH JAMMEH [...] (C) During the Ambassador,s June 1 meeting with President Abdoulaye Wade to discuss Iran (Ref A), he also raised relations with The Gambia (Ref B). Wade declared that he has no intention of taking over The Gambia; on the contrary, Senegal seeks good relations. He said he would like the Unit [...] |
2006-06-01 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GA SG |
| 06DAKAR1307 | EMBASSY DAKAR WORKSHOP ON IPR UNITES PLAYERS AND [...] On May 24, the Embassy hosted a workshop on intellectual property rights (IPR), which attracted an audience of nearly 50 people, including actors, musicians, authors, designers, screen-writers, union representatives, business owners, gendarmes, customs officers and other GOS officials. The A [...] |
2006-06-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EIND ECON SCUL PGOV KPAO SG |
| 06DAKAR133 | AN INAUSPICIOUS START FOR THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Every party involved with the 2007 legislative and presidential elections faces serious obstacles. President Wade is so concerned with ensuring a solid win that he is exploring ways to change Senegal,s electoral system and has approached former Prime Minister Seck,s camp, looking for a [...] |
2006-01-19 16:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR1427 | IS SENEGAL'S DEMOCRATIC CONSENSUS AT RISK? [...] (SBU) There is deep-rooted Senegalese consensus in favor of freedom of expression, rule of law, respect of national institutions, conformity to parliamentary or executive rules or custom, civilian control of security forces, the desirability of dialog between authorities and opposition, and [...] |
2006-06-15 14:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR154 | GUINEA-BISSAU: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON, BUT WHERE'S [...] (C) The Vieira/Aristides Gomes Government continues to develop its program, and neither the Popular National Assembly (ANP) nor the Supreme Court seems anxious to bring the Government down. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) continues to argue for [...] |
2006-01-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL KDEM BR FR GV SG PU |
| 06DAKAR1553 | COUNTRY TEAM AID PROPOSALS FOR CASAMANCE [...] (C) The Country Team met June 14 to discuss ways to move the Casamance peace process forward. We raised two central questions. First was whether the Senegalese Government and MFDC rebel movement have sufficient political will to resolve the conflict. Second was whether USG money could mak [...] |
2006-06-30 12:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PINS SG |
| 06DAKAR1554 | MOODY RIVER: WADE'S STANDING IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) We traveled along the Senegal River Valley, from the dust-ugly but sugar-prosperous city of Richard Toll; to opposition fief Podor, which President Wade is contesting by building public works; and to a poverty- distraught Matam that is asking what Wade has done for it lately. We visit [...] |
2006-06-30 12:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR1586 | NGO ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SENEGAL: [...] (C) NGOs describe Senegal as being at one of the most vulnerable points in its post-independence history in terms of fundamental freedoms of expression, movement and association. RADDHO, a prominent local human rights organization, points to judicial independence as the key issue facing Sen [...] |
2006-07-05 16:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SG |
| 06DAKAR1587 | CEREMONY MARKS SIGNING OF 2005 TIP GRANTS AND [...] Ambassador Jacobs presided over a ceremony to mark the signing of eight grants to GOS offices and NGOs actively involved in fighting trafficking in persons (TIP). The event also brought together key member of the anti-TIP community to note release of the annual TIP Report, as well as recogniz [...] |
2006-07-05 17:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SG |
| 06DAKAR1588 | SENEGAL'S BOAT PEOPLE: MORE ORGANIZED AND HEADING [...] (U) The saga of Senegal's "boat people" continues, with reports of involvement by organized crime. With Europe grappling with the problem and tightening borders, Senegalese are talking about boats now being built to carry migrants to the United States. END SUMMARY. ORGANIZED CRIME ------ [...] |
2006-07-05 18:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG |
| 06DAKAR160 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (SBU) On January 23, EmbOff delivered reftel points and supporting documents to senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials. 2. (C) On January 20, Senegalese Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development Mamadou Sidibe sought out Charge just before the cabinet and the diplomatic corps [...] |
2006-01-23 17:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC KNNP IR SG |
| 06DAKAR1608 | PRESIDENT WADE AGREES TO PUT HISSENE HABRE ON [...] (C) The African Union (AU) has asked Senegal to adjudicate the case of former Chadian leader Hissene Habre. President Wade has agreed, although under certain conditions. Human Rights Watch, the most vocal advocate of Habre's alleged victims, is optimistic, but is urging the international com [...] |
2006-07-06 15:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM CD SG |
| 06DAKAR1674 | SENEGAL'S OPPOSITION PUT TO THE TEST [...] (SBU) The opposition, already fractured, has been put to the test in recent weeks. On June 30, the terms of office for Senegalese deputies should have ended, but the National Assembly remains in session thanks to a 2005 act extending the terms by eight months (Ref A). Despite debate within t [...] |
2006-07-12 18:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KFRD EFIS SG |
| 06DAKAR1703 | SENEGAL-EU FISHING NEGOTIATIONS STALLED [...] SUMMARY: Government of Senegal (GOS) and European Union (EU) representatives, after three rounds of negotiations, failed to agree on the new terms of the bilateral Senegal-EU fishing agreement. As a result, on June 30 at midnight, the Senegal-EU Fishing Agreement expired and the last of the [...] |
2006-07-17 07:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV FAO AORC EAGR SG |
| 06DAKAR1721 | SEEKING TRANSFORMATIONAL PRESSURE POINTS IN THE [...] (C) Ref A sums up interagency talks on Senegal's 2007 elections and suggests "engaging ... Muslim Brotherhoods ... to ensure peaceful, fair and free elections." Our first reaction was that this would be a delicate exercise, given our focus on promoting Islamic-Christian dialogue, doctrinal m [...] |
2006-07-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL SG |
| 06DAKAR1740 | SENEGAL,S ECONOMIC GROWTH: IS THE WINDOW OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal,s real GDP growth for 2006 is likely to fall short of earlier expectations. Production in key export sectors is down; fish, phosphate and peanut exports all face difficulties, and indications are that industrial sector output is below projected levels. According to loc [...] |
2006-07-19 17:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID ENRG SG |
| 06DAKAR1746 | SENEGAL PLANS TO TACKLE ONGOING ENERGY CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal (GOS) recently hosted a three-day workshop in the coastal town of Saly to diagnose the current energy crisis in the wake of the ongoing world market price increases that continue to negatively affect the Senegalese economy. The workshop featured energy [...] |
2006-07-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EAID ECON EPET SG CH VE IR |
| 06DAKAR1759 | SENEGAL'S IRAN PROPOSAL [...] (C) President Wade asked to meet with me July 21 to follow up on earlier discussions regarding the situation in Iran. He indicated his primary objective in getting involved is to help avoid a military strike against Iran. He is willing to support stepped up economic sanctions, visa restrict [...] |
2006-07-21 16:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP IR SG |
| 06DAKAR1760 | TFLE01: PRESIDENT WADE CALLS FOR CEASEFIRE; [...] (C) On July 21, when the Ambassador met with President Wade, he called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza. The previous day, Senegal's Lebanese community organized a protest against Israel,s attack on Hezbollah. Cheikh Monein al Zein, leader of the small Shia commun [...] |
2006-07-21 17:00:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC MOPS PREL LE IS SG |
| 06DAKAR1761 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN SENEGAL: MID-YEAR REVIEW [...] We recently invited key human rights activists to a luncheon seminar to review rights violations and concerns in the past year. About 40 people attended, representing key Senegalese NGOs specializing in freedom of speech, children and women's rights, TIP (trafficking in persons), transparenc [...] |
2006-07-21 17:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI SG |
| 06DAKAR1774 | MOURIDE KHALIF BANS POLITICS IN TOUBA [...] (SBU) The Mouride Khalif has banned campaigning in his brotherhood's capital. As Senegal's fastest growing city, with at least half 800,000 souls, Touba looked to become a political battleground for 2007 elections. The holy city by tradition has no polling station, and was considered politi [...] |
2006-07-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
| 06DAKAR1780 | IMPOSTERS CONTINUE TO EXPLOIT U.S. REFUGEE TRAVEL [...] (SBU) Per reftel, airlines in Dakar continue to see genuine Refugee Travel Documents (I-571) issued to imposters. In the past three months, Senegalese immigration officials seized five Refugee Travel Documents from travelers denied boarding by South African Airways (SAA) because they appeare [...] |
2006-07-25 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
| 06DAKAR1787 | SENEGAL,S MCA TEAM HOSTS CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM; MCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 10, the Government of Senegal,s (GOS) &Agence pour la Mise en Oeuvre du Plateforme de Diamniadio8 (AMPMD), brought together representatives from civil society, the private sector, local government and donors to discuss Senegal,s compact development to date, solicit feedba [...] |
2006-07-25 16:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM ECON KDEM KMCA SG |
| 06DAKAR1789 | SENEGALESE-GAMBIAN RELATIONS ARE GOOD, BUT IS THE [...] (U) Following his July 22 meeting with Gambian President Yaya Jammeh in Banjul, Prime Minister Macky Sall told the press that Jammeh had agreed to support the Casamance peace process. 2. (C) Sall,s trip came shortly after President Abdoulaye Wade,s visit to The Gambia for the African Unio [...] |
2006-07-25 17:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS GA SG |
| 06DAKAR181 | SECK CASE: DOES WADE NOW FEAR A TRIAL? [...] (C) Six months after his arrest, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck is still in pre-trial detention. However, on January 24, the Government acted on a judge,s recommendation to drop the most serious charge against Seck, that of being a threat to national security. This could pave the way for [...] |
2006-01-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR1845 | FRUSTRATED BY SLOW PACE OF MCA AND OTHER [...] (U) On July 27, President Abdoualye Wade held a press conference at which he confirmed his candidacy for the February 2007 presidential election, announced that he expects to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact in Washington in September, and highlighted his frustration with W [...] |
2006-08-01 15:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV KMCA SG |
| 06DAKAR1846 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 28 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 28, the Ambassador, Senior Regional Commercial Officer and Agricultural Attache called on Minister of Commerce Decroix to discuss the Doha Round, AGOA, U.S. assistance to Senegal's cotton farmers, possible Sri Lankan investment in the textile industry, and franchising. [...] |
2006-08-01 15:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID EINV SG |
| 06DAKAR185 | SENEGAL ELECTIONS NOW SET FOR FEBRUARY 2007, BUT [...] On January 24, the prosecution dropped for lack of evidence "the threat to national security and defense" charges against former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck (Ref A) and his co-defendants: Hassan Fares, Mbaye Coulibaly, Sandrine Fares, Sandrine Madec, El Hadji Ndary Gueye and Coumba Ngouye Thi [...] |
2006-01-26 07:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR1854 | 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) Format is keyed to reftel. A. Attendance of the Head of State -- Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal -- President Wade will travel to New York following the G-77 and G-15 meetings in Havana. -- Mrs. Viviane Wade will travel to New York with her spouse. -- W [...] |
2006-08-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP UNGA SG |
| 06DAKAR1857 | TFLE01: MORE PEACEFUL PROTESTS; WADE CALLS FOR [...] SUMMARY: President Wade reiterated his call for an immediate Middle East ceasefire. Almost 450 Senegalese have now fled Lebanon, with Morocco and France evacuating more than half. Senegalese, Bissau-Guineans and Lebanese in Bissau and Dakar staged peaceful demonstrations on July 31 and Augu [...] |
2006-08-03 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PREL CASC ASEC MOPS LE IS PU SG |
| 06DAKAR1863 | WADE GOING TO DARFUR AND KHARTOUM [...] (C) On August 2, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told diplomats that President Abdoulaye Wade will travel to Sudan, August 4-7. During his visit, he will travel to Darfur to meet with Senegalese peacekeepers. On August 6, he is scheduled to meet Sudanese President Uma [...] |
2006-08-03 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU SG |
| 06DAKAR1878 | TFLE01: SWASTIKAS IN DAKAR'S MAIN SQUARE [...] (U) On August 3, Senegal's Lebanese community staged another peaceful protest, erecting a memorial of sorts in Dakar's main square, Place de l'Independence. The memorial includes American and Israeli flags with reversed swastikas, as well as signs saying "Israeli and American assassins" belo [...] |
2006-08-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PINS PREL CASC SG LE IS |
| 06DAKAR1892 | AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO FINANCE BRIDGE [...] During a recent visit to Senegal, the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) announced the Bank's plans to provide financial support for the construction of a bridge at Rosso, on the Senegal River, which will link Senegal and Mauritania. The project of building a bridge over [...] |
2006-08-07 18:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO BEXP ECIN EAID SG MR |
| 06DAKAR1897 | SENEGAL REACTS TO URGENT DEMARCHE ON LEBANON [...] (C) Since the Ambassador and Minister of Commerce Mamadou Diop Decroix were chairing a follow-up to the Fifth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo on August 8. Ambassador Diallo repeated Senegal's call for [...] |
2006-08-08 12:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN LE IS SG |
| 06DAKAR1903 | SUDAN SUMMIT TO TAKE PLACE IN DAKAR ON AUGUST 9 [...] (U) President Abdoulaye Wade has invited the Presidents of Sudan, Chad, Gabon and Tanzania, as well as the leaders of the Darfur rebel groups that did not sign the Abuja Darfur peace agreement (DPA) to Dakar for an August 9 summit. The ostensible aim is to achieve a lasting peace in Darfur an [...] |
2006-08-08 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPKO CD IR SU SG |
| 06DAKAR1914 | SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-09 16:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PNS KPKO SU CD SG |
| 06DAKAR1918 | SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPKO SU CD SG |
| 06DAKAR1919 | SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS SU CD SG |
| 06DAKAR1920 | SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS SU CD SG |
| 06DAKAR1932 | THE CASAMANCE: ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND POLITICAL [...] (C) The Ambassador visited the Casamance from August 2 through 5 to assess the peace process and the impact of USG development assistance to the region. After several failed attempts to initiate meaningful negotiations, the Casamance continues to hover in the realm of "no war, no peace." Rat [...] |
2006-08-11 10:56:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PHUM EAID SG |
| 06DAKAR1937 | SENEGAL ON PROPOSED UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) On August 10, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Ambassador Claude Absa Diallo and Ambassador Mankeur Ndiaye, the Secretary General and Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively. PolOff separately made the [...] |
2006-08-11 13:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MOPS PREL UN IS LE SG |
| 06DAKAR1940 | AMBASSADOR SIGNS USTDA GRANT FOR FEASIBILITY [...] On August 1, Senegalese Minister of Energy and Mines Madicke Niang and Ambassador Jacobs presided over a signing ceremony formalizing a USD 314,000 feasibility study grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to the Direction of Mining to assess the costs of transporting mined p [...] |
2006-08-11 16:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EMIN SG |
| 06DAKAR1970 | SUPPORT FOR CONTINUANCE OF AGOA THIRD COUNTRY [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal (GOS) has selected the textile and apparel sector as a strategic growth sector for its Accelerated Growth Strategy. Although Senegalese companies continue to have limited, domestic production of cloth and finished apparel, companies are making noticeable ef [...] |
2006-08-17 08:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA KTEX EINV ECON SG |
| 06DAKAR2000 | SENEGAL'S JUDICIARY SHAKEN BY CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (U) After protracted, heated debate about the extent of corruption in Senegal, a scandal involving one of the most senior judges has come to light. An investigation launched by the Inspector General for the Judiciary (IGAJ) led to early retirement or transfers of the judges involved and pros [...] |
2006-08-21 10:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PHUM KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR2001 | MORE CANDIDACIES AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) President Wade made official his intent to run for the presidency in 2007, as did Ousmane Kane, an international lawyer residing in New York, and Landing Savane, head of the AJ/PADS party. The Interior Ministry said that more than 75 percent of the cards have been produced for those who h [...] |
2006-08-21 10:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR2011 | PROMINENT SENEGALESE MUSLIM LEADER REQUESTS USG [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 11 below. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has received a USD 1.3 million request for financial support from prominent Senegalese Islamic leader Cheikh Hassan Cisse, to expand the broadcast capability of his community radio station, Medina Baye FM, af [...] |
2006-08-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAID PHUM SENV SOCI KPAO SG |
| 06DAKAR2012 | CASAMANCE: THE 2004 TRUCE HAS ENDED [...] (C) The December 30, 2004 truce that many Senegalese hoped would mark the end of a two-decade conflict has ended. Arguing that Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) factional fighting has created a situation in which the Senegalese Armed Forces (SAF) must intervene to re-estab [...] |
2006-08-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PHUM PINS SG PU GA |
| 06DAKAR2030 | DIAS FATHER AND SON ARRESTED, QUESTIONED ABOUT [...] (U) Jean-Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and his son, Barthelemy, leader of the "Socialist Vision" movement within the Socialist Party (PS), were both arrested last week in an unusual display of force. Jean-Paul Dias was detained in Rebeuss Prison until his health failed, at wh [...] |
2006-08-22 18:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CASC PINS KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR2062 | POSSIBLE FRAUD RING FOR SHAM MARRIAGES [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) suspects that Mishel M. Kamara, a tax preparer in Maryland, may be arranging sham marriages between low income Amcits and Sierra Leoneans solely for the purpose of illegal immigration. Kamara works for MMK Tax Services LLC, 9420 Annapolis RS, Suite 202 [...] |
2006-08-28 11:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD SG |
| 06DAKAR2065 | POSSIBLE FRAUD RING FOR SHAM MARRIAGES [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) suspects that Mishel M. Kamara, a tax preparer in Maryland, may be arranging sham marriages between low income Amcits and Sierra Leoneans solely for the purpose of illegal immigration. Kamara works for MMK Tax Services LLC, 9420 Annapolis RS, Suite 202 [...] |
2006-08-28 12:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD SG |
| 06DAKAR2091 | REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR GAMBIAN REFUGEE SIDI M. SANNEH [...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Gambian refugee Sidi M. Sanneh and his wife and daughter, who took refuge in Dakar in 2006. Sanneh has presented evidence of persecution based on his position as former Secretary for [...] |
2006-08-31 11:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM GA SG |
| 06DAKAR2093 | REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR SIERRA LEONE REFUGEE JOSEPH [...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Sierra Leone refugee Joseph F.M. Sankoh, who took refuge in Dakar in March 2006. He, his wife and otehr family members previously took refuge in Guinea in 1997. The family joined him [...] |
2006-08-31 11:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM SL GV SG |
| 06DAKAR2114 | SENEGAL LIFTS SAFEGUARD MEASURE FOR WAEMU OIL IMPORTS, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to ongoing controversy surrounding Senegal's application of a safeguard measure in 2005, President Wade signed a revised law on July 21, 2006, applying a 25 percent provisional safeguard tax on refined and palm oils originating outside the West African Economic and Mon [...] |
2006-09-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON PGOV EAID EINV IV MY SG |
| 06DAKAR2115 | ILLEGAL MIGRATION FROM SENEGAL: THE "TITANIC" [...] (C) The supposedly U.S.-bound "Titanic" and its alleged twin (Ref B) have disappeared. According to the "Titanic's" builder, it was financed by a Lebanese businessman, (living near Soumbediounne Market (a large artisanal and fish market)) in Dakar, while a Spanish national had commissioned t [...] |
2006-09-01 17:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG |
| 06DAKAR2120 | RESOLVING SENEGAL'S EDUCATIONAL CRISIS [...] (U) In the past year, Senegal,s public education system has been shaken by faculty and student unrest from the university level down. Though the violence that disrupted university campuses in the spring has mostly dissipated, current protests by middle and secondary-school teachers have had [...] |
2006-09-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ELAB ECON PHUM SG |
| 06DAKAR2150 | DHRF PROGRAM FY2006 INTERIM REPORT [...] Embassy Dakar's FY2005 Interim Report for Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) projects follows. The project selection committee recommended and the Ambassador approved four projects totaling USD 80,000, which is the entire amount of Post's FY2006 DHRF allocation. Post has signed agreement [...] |
2006-09-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR2185 | DRC ELECTIONS: PRESIDENT WADE REQUESTS U.S./EU [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL KPKO PGOV KDEM CG SG |
| 06DAKAR2224 | DAKAR: EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING [...] (U) The DCM convened the EAC on September 13, 2006, to review mission security posture due to an increase in violence in the Casamance area and petty theft in Dakar. The EAC deemed the current security posture appropriate in Dakar. In light of recent banditry and rebel activity in the Casama [...] |
2006-09-14 09:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC PINS AMGT SG |
| 06DAKAR2243 | SUDAN'S PRESIDENT ASKS WADE TO CONTINUE HIS [...] (U) En route to Cuba, President Omar Ahmed El Bashir of the Sudan made a brief stop in Dakar on September 14, when he thanked President Wade for his interest in the Sudan and asked him to continue efforts to resolve the conflict in the Darfur region. Bashir thanked Wade for having played a si [...] |
2006-09-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SG SU |
| 06DAKAR2245 | SENEGAL'S ENERGY CRISIS WORSENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There seems to be no medium- or long-term strategy to Senegal's energy crisis. After a year of rancor, the relationship between GE/GTi Dakar and Senelec has further deteriorated, and both's debts are mounting. On September 16, GTi shut down because of a lack of fuel, and the [...] |
2006-09-18 09:17:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG |
| 06DAKAR2246 | GUINEA-BISSAU: RULE OF LAW RESOLVES TENSE SECURITY [...] (C) Two military officers were arrested August 28 for plotting to murder the Armed Forces Chief but were subsequently released for lack of evidence. In a separate incident reflecting the army's inability to control national territory, a Senegalese Movement of the Casamance Democratic Forces [...] |
2006-09-18 09:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL KISL MARR PU SG |
| 06DAKAR2255 | PUSHING BUSH-DEBY MEETING, GOUDIABY SAYS THAT CHAD [...] (C) On September 15, Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Counselor to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and prominent architect, came to see the Ambassador and DCM. Goudiaby, who used to work for Mobutu Sese Seko, now has several construction projects in Chad and says that he has become a friend and un [...] |
2006-09-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS EPET ENRG PINR CD CH SA SG |
| 06DAKAR2271 | "RENTREE POLITIQUE 2006:" ARROGANCE, CALCULATION, [...] (C) Senegalese are returning from vacation to warnings that social equilibrium is in peril. President Wade's fiercest critics slander him in turn as a ruthless, scheming tyrant or vainglorious doddering relic. The opposition is wallowing in hapless self-pity, and the more histrionic among t [...] |
2006-09-19 16:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR2276 | WADE MEETS WITH IRANIAN PRESIDENT AND OFFERS [...] Before departing for the UNGA, President Wade met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in Dakar on September 13 and offered peacekeepers for the UN force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on September 14. Following the Iranian President,s visit, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade insisted that dial [...] |
2006-09-19 17:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO IR LE SG |
| 06DAKAR2307 | TARIQ RAMADAN ENCOURAGES SENEGALESE MUSLIMS TO [...] (SBU) Tariq Ramadan, the Islamic scholar of Egyptian origin, gave a series of conferences to Islamic audiences in Senegal in August. His talks drew large audiences and enthusiastic press coverage, focused on his dual messages encouraging Muslims to take active part in politics but, at the sa [...] |
2006-09-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL KDEM PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR2364 | SENEGAL'S STRATEGY TO ADDRESS ITS ENERGY CRISIS [...] (SBU) As we enter the ninth month of Senegal's energy crisis, the GOS and energy parastatals have outlined a number of steps that they hope will stabilize the situation. With presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007, there is widespread agreement among sector analysts that th [...] |
2006-09-29 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG CH IR LY MO |
| 06DAKAR2367 | "THE WADE FORMULA" - PRESIDENT WADE'S PROPOSES GLOBAL OIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 26, President Abdoulaye Wade convoked the Ambassador to discuss Senegal's MCC program and other large development plans and to present "The Wade Formula," the President's own vision of a new mechanism for fighting poverty in Africa by sharing a new global surcharge [...] |
2006-10-02 07:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EAID ECON ETRD EINV SG |
| 06DAKAR2460 | WESTERN OIL COMPANIES REDUCE HOLDINGS IN SENEGAL AS OTHER [...] (SBU) Citing poor returns on investments, Exxon-Mobil officials have announced publicly the sale of its 300 service stations in Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Cameroon, Kenya, and the island of Reunion to the Libyan firm Tamoil. At the same time, Royal Dutch Shell is quietly selling off the r [...] |
2006-10-13 06:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA CH IR LY MO SG |
| 06DAKAR2473 | AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - SENEGAL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-13 12:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PHUM AGOA SG |
| 06DAKAR2477 | SENEGAL: G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP FOCUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 10 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting focused on the recent wave of clandestine migrants from Senegal to the Canary Islands, rather than ideological extremism. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) both partici [...] |
2006-10-13 13:56:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER SNAR CVIS SMIG KCRM KISL PU SG |
| 06DAKAR2479 | FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR [...] (C) Ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Abdoulaye Wade's "spiritual son" and strategist until he fired and jailed him, is testing popular support for his presidential bid in a pre-campaign tour of the regions. We had no direct contact with Seck since April 2004, but in the last three weeks we ha [...] |
2006-10-16 11:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON PINS PINR KDEM KMCA KHDP SG |
| 06DAKAR249 | UPDATE ON AFRICAN-MAURITANIANS IN SENEGAL [...] (C) African-Mauritanian leaders in northern Senegal told visiting Ambassador Joseph LeBaron and Dakar Political Counselor January 24 and 25 that they want organized repatriation as a group under international auspices, and insist on restoration of Mauritanian citizenship and full recovery o [...] |
2006-02-02 15:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM PINR MR SG |
| 06DAKAR2503 | SENEGAL: FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR USITC STUDY ON [...] SUMMARY: Senegal's financial sector is anchored by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), based in Dakar. The commercial banking sector is active, and relatively efficient, with a number of international banks using Dakar as their regional headquarters. Senegal has one of Africa's m [...] |
2006-10-17 09:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN EINV SG |
| 06DAKAR2507 | UNSC ELECTION: SENEGAL STILL SUPPORTING GUATEMALA; [...] (C) On October 17, Charge called Senegalese Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo and requested that Senegal continue to support Guatemala in the contest for the Latin American Security Council seat. Ambassador Diallo assured Charge of continuing support and said that she would follow u [...] |
2006-10-17 11:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE SG PU |
| 06DAKAR2571 | SENEGAL: TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: UPDATED STATISTICS [...] (U) In response to Ref A request, post provides the following information on Senegal's textile and apparel industry. This expands upon information provided in Ref B. 2. (SBU) Senegal's textile industry produces limited volumes of domestic cloth and finished apparel. Despite being highlig [...] |
2006-10-23 11:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KTEX EINV AGOA SG |
| 06DAKAR2588 | LOOKING AT ELECTIONS AND OIL, UN SEES UNEMPLOYMENT AS [...] (SBU) On October 19, the six UN special representatives (UNSRs) in West Africa gathered in Dakar for their eighth meeting under the chairmanship of Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for West Africa. They focused on Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea alt [...] |
2006-10-26 08:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EPET PINS SNAR SG |
| 06DAKAR2597 | THE CASAMANCE: A SHRINKING REBELLION PRESENTS REAL [...] (C) The Casamance rebellion has shrunk to a limited geographical area, with less public support, greater logistic difficulties and more constrained operational capabilities than at any time since war began. Deprived of a Guinea-Bissau base and under pressure from animist spiritual leaders to [...] |
2006-10-26 15:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV EAID ECON PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR2610 | SENEGALESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT DOWN FOR THE COUNT [...] (SBU) Although Senegalese women recently received the legal right to head households and to enjoy the relevant tax and insurance benefits, Senegal's women's movement is stagnating. In a system where the few women in national politics tend to spend more energy consolidating power than using i [...] |
2006-10-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KISL PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR2612 | THE LOST BOYS OF BISSAU [...] (U) During a recent adoption research trip to Guinea-Bissau, several contacts reported that young boys continue to be victims of child trafficking schemes. Children continue to be trafficked from Bissau to Senegal through networks of religious leaders (marabouts) and the GOGB has limited reso [...] |
2006-10-30 10:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KOCI KFRD PU SG |
| 06DAKAR2614 | SENEGAL'S DONORS GIVE IMF MISSION AN EARFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 26, a visiting IMF Mission, on its first day in Senegal for Article 4 consultations, invited key donors to present their view of Senegal's economic situation and the policy performance of the Wade Government. The donors highlighted many issues of concern, a number of [...] |
2006-10-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV SG |
| 06DAKAR2661 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - FOURTH QUARTER FY2006 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the fourth quarter (July-September) of FY2006. Responses are keyed to Reftel A. 2.A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: No change since last quarterly report. B. NON-IMMIGRANT (NIV) FRAUD: No change since last quarterly report. C. IMM [...] |
2006-11-03 07:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
| 06DAKAR268 | THE NEWEST ROUND OF CABINET "FINE-TUNING" [...] (C) On February 1, President Wade made a "reamenagement technique" ("technical fine tuning") of the cabinet for political and economic reasons. Two ministers were ousted, two were promoted, and, in a nod to loyalists in the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) think tank, one of their own was b [...] |
2006-02-06 07:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAGR ETRD SG |
| 06DAKAR2703 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR A/S HARTY [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in [...] |
2006-11-08 18:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CMGT SMIG ECON EAID PGOV PREL KMCA SG |
| 06DAKAR2717 | SENEGAL: 2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Counter-narcotics elements of the Senegalese government remain concerned about the production and trafficking of cannabis, and to a lesser degree, hashish. Increasingly, quantities of cocaine are being seized; heroin seizures are rare. Senegal's 2005 money laundering statute and the establish [...] |
2006-11-13 08:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SG |
| 06DAKAR2748 | STAFFDEL BRANEGAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff member Jay Branegan visited Dakar, November 2-3, 2006, to study the processes and procedures whereby the State and Defense Departments coordinate in embassies overseas, particularly in pursuing activities related to the Global War on Terro [...] |
2006-11-15 16:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR ASEC OREP SG |
| 06DAKAR2758 | IMF MISSION DISAPPOINTS SENEGAL'S DONORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 8, an IMF Mission to Senegal for Article 4 consultations briefed the Ambassador and other members of Senegal's donor community on its impressions of Senegal's economic situation and performance and policy outlook for 2007. The team did not provide any new insights. [...] |
2006-11-16 15:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SG |
| 06DAKAR2780 | 2006-2007 SENEGAL INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] This cable is Part II of the 2006 National Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), Financial Crimes and Money Laundering report for Senegal. Included is a narrative overview (paras 2-12). Para 13 contains responses keyed to the numbered questions beginning with Reftel paragraph 17. 2. [...] |
2006-11-21 10:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR SG |
| 06DAKAR2789 | 2006-2007 SENEGAL INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] This cable is Part II of the 2006 National Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), Financial Crimes and Money Laundering report for Senegal. Included is a narrative overview (paras 2-12). Para 13 contains responses keyed to the numbered questions beginning with Reftel paragraph 17. 2. [...] |
2006-11-21 15:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR SG |
| 06DAKAR2796 | 2006-2007 SENEGAL INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-22 15:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR SG |
| 06DAKAR2876 | DAKAR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) [...] (C) The following are responses to reftel information request. (a) Post's Senior Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO): Robert P. Jackson Deputy Chief of Mission Tel: (221) 823-4296 ext. 2410 Email: (Unclass system) jacksonrp@state.gov Email: (Class system) jacksorp@state.sgov.go [...] |
2006-12-01 09:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PETER SG |
| 06DAKAR2887 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL TO BUILD CIGARETTE PLANT IN [...] This is an action request for State Economic Bureau, Office of Trade Policy and Commerce, Office of Chief Counsel for International Commerce. See paragraph 6. Summary ------- 2. Per Reftel, Post seeks guidance on Tobacco company Philip Morris International's (PMI) request for a letter o [...] |
2006-12-04 08:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR BEXP ETRD EINV AMGT SG |
| 06DAKAR2892 | LABORING UNDER A MISAPPREHENSION: UNIONS PREFER [...] (C) Leaders of Senegal's splintered labor movement prefer dialog with the state, but workers demand action to protest worsening social conditions. A strike by secondary teachers may invalidate the school year, and their union may launch job actions "to remind government we are here." Energy [...] |
2006-12-05 09:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PINS PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR2926 | REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR GAMBIAN REFUGEE KHALIFA [...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. resettlement program on behalf of Gambian refugee Major Khalifa Bajinka, his wife and three children. Bajinka took refuge in Dakar in late July 2006 and has been living in hiding here since his departure from The Gam [...] |
2006-12-08 13:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM GA SG |
| 06DAKAR2927 | TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) Currently the Senegalese Government does not have a specifically designated national list of banned terrorist entities. Rather, separate lists are maintained by different intelligence and enforcement agencies. 2. (SBU) The five agencies maintaining names of banned terrorist entities [...] |
2006-12-08 14:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN SG |
| 06DAKAR2940 | CULTS AND VIOLENCE: POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS [...] (C) In conjunction with the presidential decree setting February 25 as the date for Senegal,s presidential and parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry has forbidden carrying guns, clubs, machetes or knives from now through the coming elections, possibly out of concern about political or [...] |
2006-12-12 12:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PINS SOCI PINR KISL SG |
| 06DAKAR2979 | OPPOSITION SEEMS BENT ON SELF-DESTRUCTION [...] (C) At lunchtime December 18, two opposition leaders told us by phone they are preparing to announce that the opposition will run multiple presidential candidates and two separate legislative lists. The Socialists may coalesce with ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, who plans to return to Dakar t [...] |
2006-12-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR2989 | SENEGAL: GLOBAL PURSUIT OF TERRORIST INFORMATION [...] (U) The GOS provided the following responses to reftel queries: A. (SBU) Immigration Databases: Question: What computerized immigration databases are used to track entries and exits? Answer: Currently, other than paper arrival and departure records, the Government of Senegal (GOS) [...] |
2006-12-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KVPR KHLS PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC SG |
| 06DAKAR2999 | UPDATE FOR SENEGAL: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] On August 11, 2006, post provided comments on the final draft text of the U.S. Department of Labor's 2005 Worst Forms of Child Labor Report for Senegal, which included earlier Post input (Ref B). The situation in Senegal has changed little since August. The following information is keyed to [...] |
2006-12-26 07:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM SOCI KCRM SG |
| 06DAKAR3007 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL OVERSES SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) [...] Dakar is a high-crime post according to the number and frequency of crimes committed. Like most large cities, the full spectrum of criminal activity can be found. Official Americans, businesspersons, and visitors are victimized primarily by crimes of opportunity, e.g., pick-pocketing, purse- [...] |
2006-12-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CAS AMGT APER SG |
| 06DAKAR3016 | CASAMANCE: ESCALATION IN REBEL ATTACKS [...] (SBU) On December 20, Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) combatants ambushed a Senegalese army vehicle near the village of Kagnaru, north of Bignona. Two soldiers died, and 14 suffered injuries. One day before, a Senegalese army vehicle struck a fresh landmine in the outsk [...] |
2006-12-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ASEC CASC KHDP PHUM SG MO |
| 06DAKAR3020 | SENEGAL INVITES ASSAD TO VISIT AND RECEIVES [...] (C) Before the Embassy could deliver reftel demarche, we discovered that Senegalese Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio was en route to Damascus. On December 13, Gadio extended an invitation to Syrian President Assad to visit Senegal; Gadio in turn received an invitation [...] |
2006-12-27 13:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SY SG |
| 06DAKAR306 | SENEGALESE VIEWS ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM UN SG AORC |
| 06DAKAR316 | EX-PM SECK RELEASED FROM PRISON: WHY AND WHY NOW? [...] (C) The Government released former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck from Reubeuss prison on February 7 after charges against him were "partially" dropped. It remains unclear which charges might be held open; one fallback is an accusation of undue accumulation of wealth. Seck was released precisel [...] |
2006-02-08 18:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR368 | SENEGAL'S SOCIALIST PARTY IN CRISIS [...] (C) With one year to go until 2007 presidential and legislative elections, Senegal's leading opposition party is experiencing turmoil. Dissidents have created a faction within the Socialist Party (PS). Their goal is to suppress any aspirations PS Chair Ousmane Tanor Dieng has for the presid [...] |
2006-02-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SG |
| 06DAKAR394 | SENEGALESE REACTIONS TO OFFENSIVE CARTOONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese reactions to Danish cartoons have been largely muted and moderate. Nonetheless, Embassy demarched the Foreign Ministry to denounce violence and support freedom of speech. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) On February 14, Political Counselor made reftel demarche to Pape Oum [...] |
2006-02-16 19:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAO ETRD SG |
| 06DAKAR418 | PRIME MINISTER PROMISES TO FOLLOW UP ON MCC CEO [...] (SBU) On February 20, Charge hand delivered the translated copy of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer John Danilovich,s February 13 letter to Senegalese Prime Minister Macky Sall (Ref A). Sall noted that he had already received the English-language version from th [...] |
2006-02-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL SG |
| 06DAKAR43 | MFDC MURDERS CASAMANCE DEPUTY PREFECT: ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a long period of stagnation in the peace process, the Government and the Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) have launched new initiatives. The December 20 meeting in Sao Domingos, Guinea-Bissau (Reftel), between GOS representatives, MFDC leaders, and the [...] |
2006-01-06 11:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS CASC PHUM PINR PU SG |
| 06DAKAR433 | PRIME MINISTER SALL COMMENTS ON SECK CASE AND [...] (C) Senegalese Prime Minister Sall remains convinced that former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck embezzled funds and illegally enriched himself at the Senegalese people,s expense. Although Seck,s legal team vehemently denies that Seck and President Wade reached any deal, Sall says that Seck agre [...] |
2006-02-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR KJUS SG |
| 06DAKAR441 | UNDECIDED ON UNSYG AND ON VENEZUELAN CANDIDACY FOR [...] (C) On February 22, Charge made Ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo. While Ambassador Diallo appreciated U.S. interest in Senegal,s candidacy, she said that, after lengthy consultations, the Government of Senegal has decided not to present its candidacy for the new P [...] |
2006-02-23 12:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UN UNSC SG GT VE |
| 06DAKAR486 | TIDJANE BROTHERHOOD: TIVAOUANE OPENLY CRITICIZES WADE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-28 10:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR528 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. The most important achievement of the past year was passage of its first trafficking-in- persons (TIP) l [...] |
2006-03-02 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SG |
| 06DAKAR54 | ENGAGING THE AU ON AMIS REHAT [...] (C) On January 9, Charge delivered Ref A demarche to Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, who said that Senegal has decided to support rehatting the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to make it a UN peacemaking (Chapter 7) operation. Gadio said that he and President [...] |
2006-01-09 16:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR PHUM PINS AU SU SG |
| 06DAKAR553 | CENTRAL BANK REGULATIONS FORCING CITIBANK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citibank officials are struggling with West African Central Bank (BCEAO) regulatory issues that make it difficult to meet Citibank's universal standard of full compliance with local banking regulations. If these regulations cannot be modified, Citibank may be forced to shed impo [...] |
2006-03-03 17:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ETRD SG |
| 06DAKAR558 | UPDATE ON ICS BANKING CRISIS [...] SUMMARY: Pressure is mounting on local banks to take provisions against approximately USD 150 million in overdue loans to Senegal's failing phosphate mining concern, Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS). So far, Citibank appears to be the only foreign bank actively moving to write off bad l [...] |
2006-03-06 08:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ETRD IN SG |
| 06DAKAR565 | QPOLITICS 2006: THE YEAR OF "ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!" [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-06 10:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR604 | SENEGAL: INPUT FOR 2006 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON [...] Embassy Dakar's submission for the 2006 President's Report on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for Senegal follows. MARKET ECONOMY /ECONOMIC REFORM/TRADE LIBERALIZATION --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. Senegal's market-based economy is heavily dependen [...] |
2006-03-08 18:44:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON PHUM SG |
| 06DAKAR612 | IMI: THE SENEGALESE GOVERNMENT INVITES EXPRESSIONS [...] SUMMARY: President Wade,s dream project to build a new airport in Diass, a rural community located 45 kilometers (km) from Dakar, Senegal,s capital, is coming true. The Senegalese government, through Senegal,s Investment Promotion Agency (APIX), has set the stage first by creating &Aeroport [...] |
2006-03-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAIR EINV SG |
| 06DAKAR619 | ELY OULD VALL: "MAURITANIA HAS NO REFUGEES IN [...] (U) Mauritania'S Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall made his first visit to Senegal as head of state, March 6-7, 2006. In a press conference shortly before departure, he said use of the term "refugee" is inappropriate for those who left Maritania in 1989, and that those who claim to be Mauritani [...] |
2006-03-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF KFLU KUNR KPAL CN IZ MR SU SG |
| 06DAKAR626 | DEMARCHE TO SENEGAL ON LATEST WTO COTTON PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) On March 7, Senior Commercial Officer raised the Cotton-4,s latest World Trade Organization (WTO) proposal (reftel) with Minister of Commerce Mamadou Diop Decroix. Decroix said he had discussed the proposal with representatives of the Cotton-4 in Ouagadougou and that Senegal fully suppo [...] |
2006-03-10 11:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR SG |
| 06DAKAR664 | SENEGAL: MARCH 15 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between March 7 and 10, USAID/Senegal Health Officers visited the primary sites where migratory birds are found. They found Ministry of Livestock officials well informed about avian influenza, but health officials were less knowledgeable and less prepared. Although a national [...] |
2006-03-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC EAID AMED EAGR SG |
| 06DAKAR668 | THE CONSULAR ROLE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY [...] This year Embassy Dakar devoted our Consular Leadership Day (CLD) to exploring the consular section's role in transformational diplomacy. Drawing on input from several American citizen wardens, staff from the Public Affairs Section (PAS), CA's PDAS, Charge and, most importantly, the consular [...] |
2006-03-15 15:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT APER CASC CVIS KPAO PHUM PTER SG |
| 06DAKAR681 | A (MERCIFULLY BRIEF) HISTORY OF VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-16 16:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PINS PGOV PINR ASEC CASC SG |
| 06DAKAR683 | GUINEA-BISSAU: GOVERNMENT PROGRAM PASSES [...] According to radio reports from Bissau, the National Popular Assembly (ANP) approved the Government of Guinea- Bissau's policy program and budget for 2006 by a vote of 53 to 36 with no abstentions. There has not yet been a statement by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau [...] |
2006-03-16 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PGOV EFIN PU SG |
| 06DAKAR697 | SENEGALESE ON ACCELERATING UNSC ACTION ON [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-17 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SG SU |
| 06DAKAR708 | SENEGAL SEEKING UNSC SEAT FOR 2008-2009 [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) On March 15, the Mission received a diplomatic note dated the previous day from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The note &solicits8 the support of the United States for Senegal for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations [...] |
2006-03-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AORC UNSC SG |
| 06DAKAR709 | OVER 5,000 DISPLACED BY GUINEA-BISSAU FIGHTING [...] (SBU) As of midnight on March 17, Senegalese authorities had registered 2,518 refugees and displaced persons fleeing the fighting between Bissau-Guinean forces and Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) factions who want peace and Salif Sadio's "Attika" MFDC forces (reftel). T [...] |
2006-03-20 15:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF CASC EAID MOPS PINS PU SG |
| 06DAKAR766 | SENEGAL: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-29 08:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWAC UNSC LI NI SG |
| 06DAKAR81 | CODEL KOLBE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT WADE FOCUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Codel Kolbe met with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade for over 75 minutes on January 4. They discussed Senegal,s Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal; peacekeeping; human rights, especially the charges against former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck; and the Casamance peace [...] |
2006-01-12 15:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP EAID PHUM PREL KMCA KPKO SG |
| 06DAKAR817 | WADE'S CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES: THE TOWN WITHOUT A [...] (C) Old-timers claim populous and centrally-located Kaolack was once a beautiful, prosperous and charming city -- rather than a seasonally dust-choked or rain- sodden topographical smear on the road to somewhere else. With his Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) fragmented locally into at leas [...] |
2006-04-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR PINR PINS KISL SG |
| 06DAKAR82 | GAMBIAN-SENEGALESE RELATIONS DEFINITELY ON THE [...] (C) On January 4, Prime Minister Macky Sall told Charge that the GOS was very pleased by his most recent visit to The Gambia. Sall believes that relations are back on a sound footing. 2. (C) In addition to the proposed bridge and related transportation issues, the Gambian Government,s de [...] |
2006-01-12 15:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PHUM GA SG |
| 06DAKAR832 | IDRISSA SECK TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Ex-PM Idrissa Seck, released from prison less than two months ago, has declared he will run for president. In declaring, he reiterated denials that he made any deal with President Wade for his release, echoed friends' and allies' call for national "redressement" or recovery, and called, [...] |
2006-04-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SG |
| 06DAKAR835 | IT MAY BE TIME FOR DIPLOMACY TO END THE FIGHTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The fighting in northern Guinea-Bissau was a major theme of Charge and PolOff,s March 29-31 meetings with Bissau-Guinean leaders. Charge told Major General Tagme that parliamentarians and the media have a right to raise questions about the ongoing operations, which have displaced [...] |
2006-04-05 17:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PREF SNAR PU SG |
| 06DAKAR836 | SENEGAL,S COPYRIGHT OFFICE FIGHTING TO PROTECT ITS [...] (U) In response to the Embassy,s sharing of talking points regarding the 2006 Special 301 Review, the Director General of the Bureau Senegalais du Droit d,Auteur (BSDA), Senegal,s copyright office, says she is firmly committed to protecting the intellectual property rights (IPR) of authors an [...] |
2006-04-05 17:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KIPR EIND ECON SCUL PGOV SG |
| 06DAKAR837 | FIGHTING THE REAL OPPOSITION IN SENEGAL -- THE [...] (C) President Wade and his Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) have taken the unofficial pre-election campaign for the hearts and minds of potential voters to the press, and they expect the media to comply. One politician/labor activist was recently arrested after making a critical statement to [...] |
2006-04-05 17:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SG |
| 06DAKAR86 | SUD FM AFFAIR: SIX JOURNALISTS ACQUITTED, REBEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Six journalists from the Sud Communications Group were acquitted on January 6 of charges of complicity in endangering Senegal's territorial integrity. In a volte-face, the prosecution joined the defense in requesting that all charges against the journalists be dropped. Moveme [...] |
2006-01-13 07:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO SG |
| 06DAKAR864 | WADE TALKS ABOUT REVIVING THE CHARGES AGAINST SECK [...] (C) Following former Prime Minister Seck's announcement that he plans to run for President, President Wade ordered a re-examination of "illicit enrichment" charges against Seck. Privately, a member of Seck's team confided that any attempt to re-imprison Seck will be resisted by Seck and his gr [...] |
2006-04-07 14:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON SG |
| 06DAKAR876 | THE "LIBYAN GUIDE" GIVES PLENTY OF GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) President Wade celebrated Senegal's 46th anniversary of independence surrounded by five other African heads of state, but the presence of Mouammar Qadhafi drew the most fanfare. Foreign Minister Gadio told the Ambassador during her introductory call that there was no discussion of Sudan [...] |
2006-04-11 16:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV EINV FR LY SU SG |
| 06DAKAR898 | SENEGALESE COMMENTS ON GAMBIAN COUP PLOT [...] (U) On March 30, President Abdoulaye Wade condemned the March 21 coup attempt in The Gambia. Wade told the Council of Ministers that "Senegal will never be a sanctuary for coup plotters." The Gambian Foreign Minister visited Dakar on April 7, and the next day the Senegalese Ministry of Fore [...] |
2006-04-12 14:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS GA SG |
| 06DAKAR904 | GUINEA-BISSAU: COURTING U.S. AND OTHERS WITH [...] (C) In a March 29-31 visit, then Charge and PolOff saw a Guinea-Bissau that is oriented toward courting international donors and investors and implementing a domestic agenda that reflects the top priorities of UN, European and U.S. interests. The government,s priority is security sector refo [...] |
2006-04-13 13:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL ECON SNAR SG PU US |
| 06DAKAR929 | MANY IN SENEGAL ASK: "WHERE'S MY MONEY?" [...] It is common practice among politicians to make promises they cannot keep. Critics are complaining that this has become an art form in Senegal, where in the past couple of weeks, a rash of groups have complained publicly about money they were promised by the Government but never received. Th [...] |
2006-04-14 15:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV ECON SG |
| 06DAKAR932 | AMBASSADOR JACOBS PRESENTS HER CREDENTIALS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During my 30-minute meeting with President Abdoulaye Wade on April 14, we discussed the strong bilateral relationship, U.S. assistance to Senegal, his upcoming visit to Iran, Senegal,s Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, counter-terrorism, conflict resolution, the Casama [...] |
2006-04-17 19:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ODIP PREL EAID PINS KPKO IR PU SG |
| 06DAKAR933 | SENEGAL: 2006 BUDGET CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal's 2006 budget allocates more money to the social sector (education and health), and relies on CFA francs (CFAF) 43.1 billion (USD 78.3 million) in savings from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief initiative to reduce poverty, which affects nearly 57 p [...] |
2006-04-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID MARR SG |
| 06DAKAR939 | AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER EXAMINES SENEGAL'S POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Director of West African Affairs Phillip Carter visited Dakar, March 26 through 29, to assess the political and economic situation. He had informative exchanges with a variety of GOS officials, Islamic leaders and opposition politicians. Carter praised recent steps taken by the [...] |
2006-04-18 18:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG PGOV PHUM KMCA SG |
| 06DAKAR940 | AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND WEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/W Director Phillip Carter discussed peacekeeping and Darfur with Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG P.K. Fall early in his visit. Carter concluded his successful visit to Senegal with a tour d,horizon of African issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Ambassador Mankeur [...] |
2006-04-18 19:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU GA GV IV MR PU SG US |
| 06DAKAR957 | AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: South African Airlines begins daily flights from Johannesburg to Washington Dulles via Dakar next month. Delta Air Lines is scheduled to begin service from Atlanta through Dakar to Johannesburg in December. Recent FAA and TSA safety and security assessments [...] |
2006-04-20 13:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EAID SG |
| 06DAKAR959 | POLITICAL LEADERS HARASSED BY POLICE [...] (SBU) The police's Criminal Investigation Department (DIC) in recent weeks has called in several opposition and labor leaders for interrogation. Senegal being ten months away from legislative and presidential elections, the increasingly organized opposition has stepped up attacks against Pre [...] |
2006-04-20 16:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SG |
| 06DAKAR985 | SUDAN: LEVERAGING MORE SENEGALESE TROOPS TOWARDS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-24 17:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SG |
| 06FREETOWN617 | SPECIAL COURT REGISTRAR DISCUSSES COMPLETION OF [...] (U) Special Court for Sierra Leone Registrar Lovemore Munlo met with Ambassador and PolOff on July 26 to discuss a number of issues the Court faces, including its completion strategy (discussed in reftel). Munlo stood by the draft completion calendar forwarded to the Management Committee that [...] |
2006-07-31 14:40:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC SL SG |
| 06FREETOWN957 | FREETOWN GRANTS G/TIP COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Amy Lemar, Program Analyst for Africa in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), to Freetown December 10 - 14. A contract expediter meets all visitors - see para 9 below. Visitors are urged to read the conten [...] |
2006-11-22 14:52:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SMIG NI BN SG SL |
| 06NEWDELHI316 | INDIA PLANS TO ATTEND MARITIME SECURITY USER STATE [...] (U) In response to our January 17 demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali SIPDIS Rao told us that the GOI had "every intention and inclination" to attend the February 15-17 user coordination meeting in California. In light of the upcoming Parliamen [...] |
2006-01-17 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PBTS PREL PTER AS JP MY NE SG UK GE |
| 06NEWDELHI319 | INDIA PLANS TO ATTEND MARITIME SECURITY USER STATE [...] (U) In response to our January 17 demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali SIPDIS Rao told us that the GOI had "every intention and inclination" to attend the February 15-17 user coordination meeting in California. In light of the upcoming Parliamen [...] |
2006-01-18 01:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PBTS PREL PTER AS JP MY NE SG UK GE |
| 06OUAGADOUGOU420 | U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (SBU) DCM presented demarche to Salifou Sawadogo, Chef de Cabinet of the Prime Minister. The President and Minister of Foreign Affairs are both out of the country, and the Prime Minister is unavailable until next week. Sawadogo took careful notes as DCM presented demarche, summarized the a [...] |
2006-06-02 14:00:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CH IR SG |
| 06PARIS3362 | UNESCO: DAKAR OFFICE CHIEF OUTLINES DECENTRALIZATION [...] Summary and Comment: To explore issues relating to decentralization, Ambassador Oliver and Science Officer met with Lalla Aicha Ben Barka, Director of the UNESCO Office in Dakar and the regional office for Education in Africa (BREDA). Although the UNESCO secretariat often highlights its decen [...] |
2006-05-19 08:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KDEM KSCA SOCI XA SG UNESCO EDU |
| 06PARIS4914 | COURTESY CALL BY SENEGALESE AMBASSADOR TO UNESCO, AMADOU [...] (U) Summary: Senegal new Ambassador to UNESCO, Amadou Deme, paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Oliver today, June 30th. The two Ambassadors discussed the need to work closely together to advance UNESCO capabilities to provide effective programs for Africa through all of UNESCO sectors. En [...] |
2006-07-19 11:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNESCO SCUL SG |
| 07ABIDJAN959 | (U) ACTION COMPLETED: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan completed action requested in reftel. Here is the biographic information on three influential Ivoirian Muslim leaders who have favorable views of the United States and offer an alternative view to Islamic extremism. 2. (SBU) El Hadj Aboubacar FOFANA Gender: Male DOB [...] |
2007-09-12 18:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK PO QA RP RS RW SA SF SG SL SN SO SP |
| 07BANJUL11 | THE GAMBIA: AN IRASCIBLE PRESIDENT JAMMEH IN [...] (C) In a year-end television interview, an irascible President Jammeh delivered a familiar diatribe against Western donors while also taking a swipe at Senegal. His derisive remarks about the opposition are hardly encouraging in the runup to the National Assembly elections January 25. END SUM [...] |
2007-01-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KMCA SG GA |
| 07BANJUL134 | THE GAMBIA: ARREST OF SENEGALESE CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (C) The local media have reported Gambian authorities' early February arrest and ongoing trial of five Senegalese customs officials, allegedly picked up in Gambian territorial waters. In recent conversation with Ambassador, the prominent Gambian attorney representing the Senegalese defendants, [...] |
2007-03-14 17:24:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GA SG |
| 07BANJUL243 | THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TIES WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) In recent conversation with Ambassador, Senegalese Ambassador Mamadou Fall asserted that heightened strains in the Senegalese/Gambian relationship persisted and cited the ongoing trial here of five Senegalese customs officials as a case in point (ref a). It was clear, Fall asserted, that [...] |
2007-05-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GA SG |
| 07BANJUL250 | THE GAMBIA: FURTHER STRAINS IN TIES WITH SENEGAL [...] (C) In May 15 conversation with Ambassador, knowledgeable journalistic source spoke of growing strains in Senegalese/Gambian ties, saying a senior Gambian official, the National Intelligence Agency's head, had recently expressed concern to him privately that the GOS might close Senegal's borde [...] |
2007-05-15 13:23:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GA SG |
| 07BANJUL257 | THE GAMBIA: MEDIA ATTACK ON SENEGAL, CONVICTION OF [...] (C) A pro-GOTG daily led May 17 with report of recent meeting of Gambian dissidents and GOS Interior Ministry officials in Dakar as part of anti-GOTG plotting; a reported participant denied the report. On the previous day, May 16, the trial of five Senegalese customs officials ended with thei [...] |
2007-05-17 12:29:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS SG GA |
| 07BANJUL258 | THE GAMBIA: A GESTURE TO SENEGAL [...] (C) Reftel reports the Gambian court's May 16 conviction and sentencing to 18-month prison sentences of five Senegalese customs officials. The following day, May 17, the GOTG announced President Yayha Jammeh's decision to pardon the five, who were immediately released and handed over to the S [...] |
2007-05-18 10:34:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV POINS SG GA |
| 07BANJUL281 | THE GAMBIA: MILITARY COOPERATION WITH IRAN [...] (S) We note, per ref a, indication from GOS that Iran has agreed to supply arms to the GOTG. We also note previous reporting in other USG channels of possible Iranian weapons deliveries here. While Gambian officials deny any weapons deal with the Iranians, a well-informed journalistic source [...] |
2007-06-02 12:31:00 | Embassy Banjul | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS GA IR SG |
| 07BANJUL283 | THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TENSIONS WITH SENEGAL, [...] (C) An online "journal" reported May 28 the arrest of Senegal-based Gambian "rebels" entering The Gambia as part of preparations, with GOS complicity, for a renewed coup attempt. A knowledgeable source was not able to confirm the report, but said GOS had angrily denied a recent local media re [...] |
2007-06-04 09:12:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PREF SG GA |
| 07BANJUL285 | THE GAMBIA: INFLUENCE OF SENEGALESE ENERGY [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-04 16:20:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL SG GA |
| 07BANJUL301 | THE GAMBIA: FURTHER MEDIA ATTACK AGAINST SENEGAL [...] (SBU) Following its May 17 article alleging GOS collusion in Gambian dissidents' anti-GOTG plotting (ref A), the pro-government "Daily Observer" led June 11 with further allegations of GOS support for destabilization efforts here. Under the headline "Senegal Continues to Destabilize Gambia," [...] |
2007-06-11 16:36:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS SG GA |
| 07BANJUL325 | THE GAMBIA: CASAMANCE VIOLENCE, SENEGALESE [...] (C) On June 22, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), claimed to RSO that on June 18 a "major battle" had erupted between Senegalese military forces and Casamance rebels near the Gambian border town of Sibanor. He said that the fighting had resulted in "substantial losses" to the Senegalese [...] |
2007-06-22 13:39:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PREF SG GA |
| 07BANJUL449 | CASAMANCE REBELS SKIRMISH IN THE GAMBIA [...] (SBU) Post received a note verbale addressed to all diplomatic missions in The Gambia, dated August 16, from the Department of State (Ministry) for Foreign Affairs, documenting two casualties (one death) from an encounter between rival Senegalese rebel groups along the Casamance border on Ju [...] |
2007-08-22 08:52:00 | Embassy Banjul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PREF SG GA |
| 07BANJUL5 | THE GAMBIA: ONGOING TENSIONS WITH SENEGAL OVER THE [...] (C) On January 3, Senegalese Ambassador Mamadou Fall called on Ambassador to register concern over what he portrayed as the GOTG's continued meddling in the Casamance dossier. Fall claimed that three leading MFDC figures cooperating in GOS peace efforts -- Alexandre Djibba, Magne Dieme, and K [...] |
2007-01-04 15:09:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SG GA |
| 07BANJUL83 | THE GAMBIA: NO CHANGE IN UNHELPFUL POSTURE ON THE [...] (C) Ambassador raised the GOTG's Casamance posture in separate discussions February 14 with Senegalese Ambassador Mamadou Fall and Pap Saine, the well-connected chief editor of the daily, "The Point." Both asserted that President Jammeh's meddling in the Casamance was continuing, claiming tha [...] |
2007-02-15 17:11:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS SG GA |
| 07BEIJING7473 | DECEMBER 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key points at the regular December 13 MFA press briefing: -- VFM Wu Dawei and ROK Ambassador Chun Yung-woo met this morning to discuss the Six-Party Talks and the "next stage of work." -- China hopes the Sudan Government can take measures to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens in Sudan. [...] |
2007-12-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV JA KN KS SA IT FM SG FR LE IS |
| 07DAKAR1017 | WHITHER SENEGALESE ISLAM?: AESTHETICS, HARMONY [...] (C) Sufi Brotherhood intellectuals inspired by Middle Eastern ideas are building institutions to reconsider traditional values, but they insist Senegalese common sense will sort out doctrinal trash. This is an opportune time for ideological innovation: the once narrowly nationalist and farm [...] |
2007-05-10 12:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KISL PGOV PINR SG |
| 07DAKAR1025 | GUINEA-BISSAU AND SENEGAL WILL OPPOSE BELARUS IN [...] (C) Guinea-Bissau Watcher delivered Ref A demarche and talking points to Bissau-Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Communities Maria da Conceicao Nobre Cabral on May 10 via telephone. Minister Cabral said she would instruct the Bissau-Guinean Permanent Represe [...] |
2007-05-10 17:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC PU SG |
| 07DAKAR1026 | AFRICOM DELEGATION RECEIVES SENEGALESE INPUT [...] (C) The interagency AFRICOM delegation visited Dakar in April, meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Minister of Armed Forces Becaye Diop and Chief of Defense Major General Abdoulaye Fall on April 21. There was a marked co [...] |
2007-05-10 17:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS OVIP SG |
| 07DAKAR1027 | OPPOSITION BOYCOTT THREATENS LEGITIMACY OF [...] (C) Alleging gerrymandering, Senegal,s leading opposition parties have formed an alliance to boycott the June 3 parliamentary election. President Wade, whom the opposition also accuses of manipulating electoral rolls, continues to dismiss calls to postpone for a third time. The press is rif [...] |
2007-05-10 18:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PINS SOCI PHUM PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1035 | DEEP CUTS IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WILL HARM SENEGAL'S [...] (SBU) Having recently been apprised of possible significant cuts to USAID/Senegal's operating (OE) budget and development program, perhaps as early as the current fiscal year, I feel compelled to provide an initial reaction in the hope that there is still an opportunity for this Mission, as we [...] |
2007-05-14 07:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL KMCA PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR1039 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIRALS STUFFLEBEEM AND [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for legislative elections on June 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in promoting peace and [...] |
2007-05-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP MARR PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
| 07DAKAR1041 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - SECOND QUARTER FY2007 [...] (SBU) Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the second quarter (January-March) of FY2007 follows. Responses are keyed to Ref A. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Since the last report, there has been no significant change in the economic situation. The current political situation co [...] |
2007-05-14 12:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
| 07DAKAR1042 | GOVERNMENT OF SENEGAL'S VIEWS ON SAMPLE SHARING AND VACCINE [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the information requested in reftel: A. The Government of Senegal (GOS) shares the samples collected with World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) world reference labs and with some laboratories such as Pas [...] |
2007-05-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU PINR SG |
| 07DAKAR1051 | CITES COP 14 PREPARATION: SENEGAL POSITION [...] Per reftel instructions, on May 14, EconOff delivered information on U.S. proposals for CITES COP 14 to Colonel Matar Cisse, Director of the Forestry and Water Department at the Ministry of Environment, and Abdoulaye Sy, Head of the Fauna Division. Mr. Sy is the GOS's senior expert on CITES i [...] |
2007-05-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA ETRD SG |
| 07DAKAR1054 | 2007 AGOA FORUM: SENEGAL AND GUINEA-BISSAU INVITED [...] On May 10, Ambassador Jacobs provided reftel information on the 2007 AGOA Forum to Senegal's Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Finance. In addition, the Economic Office briefed Mr. Abdoulaye Dieye, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Europe and the Americas, and Mr. Robert Niouk [...] |
2007-05-16 07:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EINV EFIN EAID PU SG |
| 07DAKAR1062 | SENEGAL'S POSITON ON USG INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-16 12:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL ETRD IWC SG |
| 07DAKAR1072 | SENEGAL'S POSITON ON USG INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Senegal plans to support the U.S. positions on the Bowhead Whale quota and the Conservation Committee, according to Mrs. Ndeye Ticke Ndiaye Diop, Senegal's International Whaling Commissioner and Director of the Maritime Fishing Division of the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Mr. Moustap [...] |
2007-05-16 13:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL ETRD IWC SG |
| 07DAKAR1075 | MFDC DETAINEES IN THE GAMBIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Dakar appreciates reftel report on Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) members in The Gambia. According to Senegalese government, media, and MFDC sources, we believe Gambian authorities currently have approximately 28 MFDC leaders and other rebels in detention. [...] |
2007-05-16 15:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS GA SG |
| 07DAKAR1089 | DARFUR: SENEGAL UNSURE ABOUT AMIS/UN TRANSITION [...] (C) After demarches at the Presidency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), DCM contacted Ambassador Mankeur Ndiaye, the Director of Cabinet at the MFA. Ndiaye would say only that the transition from the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a hybrid AU/UN peacemaking mission is [...] |
2007-05-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU SG |
| 07DAKAR1113 | SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE AGOA FORUM [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-23 08:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD GH SG |
| 07DAKAR112 | SENEGAL: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] Senegal offers investors political stability, democracy, advanced telecommunications infrastructure, an advantageous geographic location, a bilateral investment treaty with the United States, low inflation, a currency pegged to the euro, easy repatriation of capital and income and abundant se [...] |
2007-01-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KTBD OPIC EFIN USTR ETRD SG |
| 07DAKAR113 | SENEGAL WILL PROBABLY PLEDGE AT LIBERIA PARTNERS' [...] (U) On January 11, Acting Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Claude Absa Diallo told Charge that Senegal will participate in the Liberia Partners' Forum (reftel) and plans to make at least a symbolic pledge to underscore Senegal's support for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government. [...] |
2007-01-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL IV LI PU SG |
| 07DAKAR1136 | A WALK THROUGH DAKAR: THE PEOPLE SPEAK [...] (C) A pre-election walk through Dakar,s vibrant Medina district and the city,s principal domestic bus station revealed five themes on the minds of the populace. It is the duty of every citizen to vote; the opposition boycott is ill-conceived and undermines Senegal,s democracy; the cost of li [...] |
2007-05-23 18:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PHUM PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR114 | SOMALIA: SENEGAL WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO AU FORCE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-12 17:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SO SG SU |
| 07DAKAR1141 | THE OPPOSITION EXPLAINS THE BOYCOTT [...] (C) In a May 23 meeting with the Ambassador, leaders of many of the 17 Senegalese opposition parties that are boycotting the June 3 legislative election explained their position and probed possible U.S. government support. Warning that Senegal,s democracy is under grave threat, the party lead [...] |
2007-05-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR1144 | SENEGAL-GAMBIAN RELATIONS REMAIN TENSE [...] (S) Relations between Senegal and Gambia remain tense said Momar Gueye, Director of Asian and African Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Gueye cited the Gambian government,s continued belief that Senegal had a hand in a failed March 2006 coup plot against President Jammeh, rumors of [...] |
2007-05-24 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PREL PINS MARR PTER GA IR SG |
| 07DAKAR1153 | SENEGAL PLANNING TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO COMOROS [...] (C) On May 25, Ambassador Oumar Demba Ba, one of President Wade's Diplomatic Advisors, told DCM that Senegal has decided to contribute to an African Union peacekeeping force in the Comoros. The size, timing and logistics involved in this seventh ongoing peacekeeping mission have not been det [...] |
2007-05-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR KPKO CN SG |
| 07DAKAR1173 | LOW TURNOUT BY MILITARY AND POLICE IN PRELIMINARY [...] (SBU) Military, paramilitary forces and national police cast the first votes, May 26-27, of Senegal,s 2007 legislative election. Turnout has been reported as extremely low, leading to claims of a successful boycott spearheaded by the &Front Siggil Senegal,8 while other observers argue that [...] |
2007-05-30 15:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR1223 | IMF: SENEGAL'S POOR PUBLIC FINANCES WILL MAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to IMF Resrep for Senegal, Alex Segura, President Wade's administration has greatly exacerbated the country's public finances problems in recent years. The GOS and the IMF are facing difficult negotiations on a new program, whether a PRGF or a Policy Support Instrumen [...] |
2007-06-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL KCOR SG |
| 07DAKAR1258 | LOW TURNOUT IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On June 3, the people of Senegal voted in legislative elections. Turnout was an extremely low 34.75 percent with the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) securing 131 out of 150 seats in the National Assembly. A fierce debate has erupted between the boycotting &Front Siggil Senega [...] |
2007-06-08 14:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR1266 | AMBASSADOR MEETS THE TIDJANES [...] (C) In a long discussion with Ambassador Jacobs, the extremely influential spokesman of the Tidjane Brotherhood, Abdoul Aziz Sy al Ibn (Junior), underlined his community,s dismay at President Wade,s overt Mouridism and his use of state funds to promote their interests. Both Sy, and his elder [...] |
2007-06-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PHUM PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1276 | MCC TELLS GOS IT HAS ENDED SUPPORT OF ORIGINAL COMPACT [...] (U) Possible action request for the Department, Johannesburg and Cape Town in para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The MCC has informed President Wade and Prime Minister Macky Sall that it will not continue supporting Senegal's MCC Compact proposal, the Diamniadio Platform. The MCC remains keen to [...] |
2007-06-13 16:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1283 | SENEGAL,S SENATE RETURNS [...] (C) On February 12, 2007 the National Assembly passed a law to revive a Senate that in 2001 President Wade had declared unnecessary. With legislative elections over, questions are rife as to why. Six factors seem to have influenced Wade: Creating a power base for his son Karim, consolidatin [...] |
2007-06-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR129 | SENIOR MINISTER GADIO'S HOLIDAY MESSAGE TO THE SECRETARY: [...] (U) On January 16, the Embassy received a copy of a letter from Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. An unofficial translation follows. Begin text. Republic of Senegal Minister of Foreign Affairs Office of the Senior Minister D [...] |
2007-01-17 17:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PREL PHUM KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR1323 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR FIRST LADY (FLOTUS) [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, President Abdoulaye Wade has just changed Prime Ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States [...] |
2007-06-21 08:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
| 07DAKAR1330 | NEW GOVERNMENT HAS STRONG ECONOMIC TEAM [...] (SBU) President Wade, following a historically low turn out at recently concluded legislative elections, ousted Prime Minister Macky Sall. Even though Wade was not expected to keep Sall he used him as a scapegoat for being unable to maintain unity within the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party [...] |
2007-06-21 13:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EFIN ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1348 | TIP REPORTS DELIVERED; UNODC AND EU WORKING WITH ECOWAS [...] EmbOffs have delivered the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports to the Governments of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, and the reports have been posted on the embassy Web site in English and French or Portuguese. In the course of related discussions, Embassy learned that the computer equipment [...] |
2007-06-25 11:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM PU SG |
| 07DAKAR1352 | MOURIDE ISLAMIC LEADERS PREACH NONVIOLENCE AND GOOD [...] (SBU) Having recently visited Senegal's largest religious order, the Tidjanes (Ref A), on June 15 Ambassador Jacobs traveled to the holy city of Touba, to call on the Khalif of the Mouride brotherhood. The Mourides are the richest and most influential Sufi brotherhood in Senegal. The Khalif [...] |
2007-06-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL PTER ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1379 | POPULAR SENEGAL TREASURY BOND ISSUANCE A STOPGAP MEASURE [...] Through the regional central bank, Senegal recently sold approximately USD 100 million worth of treasury bonds, all of which were purchased very quickly by over-liquid commercial financial institutions anxious for investment opportunities. Individual investors were not able to directly partic [...] |
2007-06-29 11:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD SG |
| 07DAKAR1382 | ROUNDTABLE ON SENEGAL'S AGOA FORUM PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 19, Senegal's Ministry of Commerce organized a stakeholder roundtable to assess the state of preparations for the GOS' participation in the July 18-19 AGOA Forum. EconOff and representatives from the West African Trade Hub/Dakar participated. Senegal is not yet well o [...] |
2007-06-29 13:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EINV EFIN EAID EAIR SG |
| 07DAKAR1400 | LUNCH WITH ARAB AMBASSADORS TO SENEGAL [...] (C) On June 18, 2007, the Ambassador hosted a lunch with Arab Ambassadors. The frank discussion focused on democracy in the Middle East, terrorism and its root causes, Islamic parties, methodologies to win elections, the Palestinian question, and water issues as a potential spark for conflict [...] |
2007-07-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PREL PTER KDEM KISL KPAL PINR SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR1435 | TURKISH AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONS [...] (S) During Embassy,s Dakar Fourth of July celebrations, PolOff had a candid discussion with Turkish Ambassador Yalcin Kayaerensoy (strictly protect) on the Turkish people,s continued anger over the capture of its soldiers in July 2003, Turkey,s upcoming July 22 election, the rise of nationali [...] |
2007-07-09 17:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PREL KDEM KISL PINR PTER SOCI SG TU |
| 07DAKAR1452 | HISSENE HABRE PROSECUTION STALLED [...] (C) International and domestic press are reporting accusations by human rights groups that Senegal is &dragging its feet8 on prosecuting former Chadian President Hissene Habre. Stephen Rapp, Special Prosecutor for Sierra Leone, discussed the issue during March 2007 meeting with Ambassador Ja [...] |
2007-07-11 11:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINR SG CD |
| 07DAKAR1454 | IMF RESREP ON SENEGALESE POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE [...] (S/NF) Senegal is clearly at a political and economic crossroads. Because we are friends, we should do what we can to help Senegal through this difficult time. On June 29, IMF ResRep Alex Segura sought out the Economic Counselor to better understand the MCC decision to end its work on the D [...] |
2007-07-11 12:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID EFIN ECON PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR1464 | LARGE DRUG SEIZURE AND ARRESTS IN SENEGAL [...] (C) Senegalese gendarmes seized over two tons of cocaine in June and arrested a number of Latin Americans and Europeans involved in the trafficking. Senegal is cooperating with the FBI and DEA. These huge seizures indicate that no West African country is immune to the flow of cocaine from S [...] |
2007-07-12 15:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PINS SG |
| 07DAKAR1465 | UPDATED SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE AGOA FORUM [...] On July 11, Senegal's Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, told the Ambassador that he will now lead Senegal's official delegation to the AGOA Forum. Gadio would welcome a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rice. We do not expect recently appointed Minister of Commerce Ama [...] |
2007-07-12 15:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD GH SG |
| 07DAKAR1468 | SUDAN: SENEGALESE SUPPORT FOR HYBRID UNSCR [...] (C) Outgoing DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Claude Absa Diallo, the Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), on July 13. Diallo said Senegal is in complete agreement with our proposal. She indicated that any change in troop levels had to be associated with the [...] |
2007-07-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC SU SG |
| 07DAKAR149 | INTRIGUES TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On January 18, the Minister of Information announced plans to postpone legislative elections in response to a January 12 ruling by the Council of State, Senegal's highest administrative body. The Council voided President Wade's December decree allotting National Assembly seats (Ref B) o [...] |
2007-01-19 13:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR1508 | REACTION TO MCC DECISION AND JAFZA DEAL: QUESTIONS FROM [...] (U) The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) decision to withdraw from the "Diamniadio" industrial platform project (reftel) has opened the door for Senegal's opposition politicians and press to challenge President Abdoulaye Wade's administration on governance, public finances, and commitm [...] |
2007-07-20 09:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1515 | SENEGAL'S DONORS AGAIN GIVE IMF MISSION AN EARFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the beginning of a two-week mission to negotiate a new program with Senegal, IMF officials on July 12 received a non-stop stream of complaints and concerns by the country's traditional donors over the current state of public finance and governance. Senegal very much needs a [...] |
2007-07-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON ETRD EINV SG |
| 07DAKAR1522 | THE COST OF A NEW GOVERNMENT: CARS, HOTEL, AND A NEW SENATE [...] (SBU) Summary. A June 30 report in the daily "Wal Fadjri" that the Government of Senegal (GOS) was planning to spend CFA 2.250 billion (USD 4.5 million) to purchase Chinese "Hover" brand SUVs for the 150 newly elected Deputies, was confirmed by reliable sources at the Ministry of Finance. Th [...] |
2007-07-23 15:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR1523 | CHINESE VICE MINISTER OF COMMERCE JIANGUO'S DAKAR VISIT [...] Summary: Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo paid a visit to Senegal on July 12-13. The visit included the signing of four accords for economic cooperation and cultural projects. Wei's thirty-member business delegation discussed opportunities with their Senegalese counterparts. S [...] |
2007-07-23 16:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN PREL ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1524 | The PDS-Time for a Change [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-23 16:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1530 | SENEGAL APPEARS READY TO GIVE-UP ON MCC OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) This cable includes an action request for MCC with coordination by the Department. Please see para 5 below. 2. (SBU) Summary: Senegal's Minister of Finance Abdoulaye Diop confirmed that Senegal insists on terms likely unacceptable to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for fin [...] |
2007-07-24 15:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR1541 | The PDS-Time for a Change [...] (SBU) After two very comfortable elections victories President Wade now feels he has the power to revamp his Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS). The two main reasons that are being cited for this restructuring are that he is preparing a new platform for his son Karim to use as a springboard to [...] |
2007-07-26 11:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1557 | The Cost of Immunity [...] (SBU) On July 17, President Wade asserted his authority when he instructed the Prime Minister to deliver a message to the National Assembly in which he promised to purchase a vehicle for each one of the 150 Deputies, detailed reforms the Deputies needed to undertake, and instructed them how to [...] |
2007-07-26 17:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR1570 | MAURITANIAN AND SENEGALESE PRESIDENTS DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Mauritanian President, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, paid an official visit to Senegal on July 9 and 10. He met President Wade and with the Mauritanian community where discussions included the status of Mauritanian refugees on the Mauritania-Senegal border. The newly installed P [...] |
2007-07-27 13:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS SOCI PHUM PINR PREF OVIP SG MR |
| 07DAKAR1572 | DEMARCHE TO SUPPORT STEVE CARR FOR THE STANDING [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 13:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF OVIP PHUM ICRC SG |
| 07DAKAR1574 | DEMARCHE ON THE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 14:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL AORC SG |
| 07DAKAR1575 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 14:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR1577 | Time for the Mauritanians to go Home [...] (SBU) In a meeting with Charge d'Affaires, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) Regional Representative, Rosaline Idowu, was upbeat that a large percentage of the 20,000 Mauritanian refugees remaining in the Senegal River Valley would return home. She confirmed President W [...] |
2007-07-30 07:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PREF SG |
| 07DAKAR1591 | IMF MISSION: MIXED MARKS, BUT READY TO SUPPORT SENEGAL'S [...] Summary: A visiting IMF team led by Johanness Mueller provided an end-of-mission briefing for donors on July 26 to inform them of the state of the ongoing negotiations of a new program with Senegal. Mueller termed FY 2006 a "difficult year," and said that, while Senegal is still struggling [...] |
2007-07-31 13:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR1655 | FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY VISITS DAKAR, LECTURES AFRICAN [...] (SBU) On July 26-27, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Senegal as the first stop on his mission to some of France's former African colonies. With the stated goal of heralding a new era in Franco-African relationships, he delivered a major speech on his African policy at a Dakar's Cheik [...] |
2007-08-09 17:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1693 | SENEGAL: INDIAN IFFCO TO CONTROL ICS [...] Summary: On July 16 the Government of Senegal and the Indian Farmer Fertilizer Cooperative Limited Group (IFFCO) signed a new agreement to rescue Senegal's major phosphate producer, ICS. The goal of the negotiations was to recapitalize ICS, gain creditors' confidence, attract new shareholder [...] |
2007-08-14 15:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ETRD IN SG |
| 07DAKAR1725 | IRANIAN CHIEF JUSTICE VISITS SENEGAL [...] (U) On July 28, President Wade met with Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Sharoudi, Chief of the Judiciary of Iran and Mohamed Reza Baghrei, Special Envoy of President Ahmadinejad in Dakar. Before departing Senegal on July 29, Sharoudi gave a press conference highlighting Iranian cooperation with Sene [...] |
2007-08-22 16:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KNNP KISL KGIC EIVN ENRG SG |
| 07DAKAR1727 | CHINESE INVOLVEMENT IN SENEGAL'S NATURAL RESOURCES [...] (C) To date, China is not heavily invested in Senegal's natural resources sectors. China's presence in Senegal currently focuses on the importation of Chinese consumer and industrial goods, including automobiles, and Chinese assistance for public works projects. China does not have a fishin [...] |
2007-08-22 16:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV SENV CM SG |
| 07DAKAR174 | DAKAR CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE, JANUARY 30-31, 2007 [...] Embassy Dakar confirms participation in the Crisis Management Exercise (CME) during the period 30-31 January 2007 and warmly welcomes CMT Team Leader Michael Braxton to Dakar, Senegal. The point of contact for coordination of the CME at post will be Roksana Houge. Country clearance for Micha [...] |
2007-01-23 10:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC ASEC KESS KCOM OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR175 | DAKAR CRISIS MANAGEMEN EXERCISE, JANUARY 30-31, 2007 [...] Embassy Dakar conirms participation in the Crisis Management Exerise (CME) during the period 30-31 January 2007 and warmly welcomes CMT Team Leader Michael Braxton to Dakar, Senegal. The point of contact for coordination of the CME at post will be Roksana Houge. Country clearance for Michael [...] |
2007-01-23 10:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC ASEC KESS KCOM OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR1753 | A WALK THROUGH DAKAR UNIVERSITY: THE STUDENTS SPEAK [...] (SBU) In a series of interviews conducted with University of Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) students from all disciplines, student leaders, and university professors concerning their political views and their educational experience, "Failing exams is the rule" and "Success is the exception" was an oft [...] |
2007-08-27 12:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR ECON SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR1764 | MAURITANIAN REFUGEES: THE DILEMMA OF RETURN [...] (SBU) On July 31, Poloff visited refugee villages in Dagana and Dodel to seek the opinions of refugees regarding recent initiatives by the Mauritanian Government inviting them to return home and President Wade's statement that those who wish to remain in Senegal will be granted Senegalese citi [...] |
2007-08-28 12:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF MR SG |
| 07DAKAR1816 | SENATE ELECTIONS: DEMOCRATIC MISSTEP? [...] (SBU) On August 19, local officials and Members of Parliament elected 35 senators via indirect suffrage. The ruling PDS (Democratic Party of Senegal) won 34 out of the 35 "contested" seats. The only opposition member in the Senate will be a member of AJ/PADS, the African Party for Democracy [...] |
2007-09-05 16:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR1821 | IDRISSA SECK - THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON? [...] (C) On July 25 a meeting took place between representatives of former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck and President Wade to explore ways for Seck to return to the Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) or a reconstituted &Liberal Movement.8 Since then, negotiations between the two parties have contin [...] |
2007-09-06 09:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR1859 | THE ROAD AHEAD FOR SENEGAL,S OPPOSITION [...] (C) In a meeting with the Charge D'Affaires, the leaders of Senegal's main opposition parties explained their current campaign to hold a National Dialogue and warned that Senegal was faced with the triple threat of an unstable political situation, an out-of-control economy, and social disconten [...] |
2007-09-13 11:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR1861 | SENEGALESE ATTENDANCE AT THE 62ND UNGA [...] (U) Post has received confirmation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that President Abdoulaye Wade will lead the Senegalese delegation to the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. The delegation will also include but may not be limited to: --Mrs. Viviane Wade --Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Mi [...] |
2007-09-13 16:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ITRA OVIP KSEP UNGA SG |
| 07DAKAR1868 | REMITTANCES TO SENEGAL ARE AN ECONOMIC FORCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Formally recorded remittances to Senegal topped USD 800 million in 2006 and are undoubtedly higher this year. Informal money transfers are not quantified, but are also significant, perhaps equaling the formal flow. These funds are an important source of foreign currency and alle [...] |
2007-09-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR1918 | CLANDESTINE IMMIGRATION-IN SEARCH OF ELDORADO [...] (SBU) Goaded by their families who sell everything to give them their shot, young men, women and even children are connected with unscrupulous middlemen who can charge them over a thousand dollars to spend up to 12 days on rickety boats in sometimes doomed attempts to make it to Spain or Europe [...] |
2007-09-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL PREF SG |
| 07DAKAR1957 | SENEGAL'S TEXTILES AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] (U) Per reftel request, post provides the following information on Senegal's textile and apparel industry. 2. (U) Senegal is not a significant global producer of textile and apparel products. In 2006, total textile/apparel exports were USD 33.9 million, with exports to the U.S. at less than [...] |
2007-10-01 15:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KTEX ECON EINV AGOA SG |
| 07DAKAR1966 | International Donor's Conference for the Habre trial [...] (SBU) The Government of Senegal had initially planned to hold a donor's conference for a future trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on September 17 with Minister of Foreign Affairs Gadio and Minister of Justice Sy chairing it. That plan was abandoned and no new dates have been dete [...] |
2007-10-02 11:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KAWC SG CD |
| 07DAKAR1987 | SENEGAL SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET FOR OIC PROJECTS, PARASTATAL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 28, Senegal's National Assembly approved a supplemental budget for the current fiscal year, augmenting targeted expenditures by eleven percent following the successful issuances of treasury bonds in June and August 2007, recent announcements of new loans from Saudi [...] |
2007-10-04 16:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR1988 | WADE'S POST-U.N. DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE [...] (U) On October 1, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade gave a rambling, two and a half-hour press conference where he detailed his participation at the 62nd UN General Assembly meeting in New York and his other meetings and activities during his September trip to the United States. He opined t [...] |
2007-10-04 16:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR PGOV IR ZI SG |
| 07DAKAR1993 | WADE INFORMS AND MISINFORMS ON MCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has publicly confirmed that his government will not pursue a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact to help with Dakar's toll road project. Having previously lost the opportunity for MCC funding of a new industrial platform because of [...] |
2007-10-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
| 07DAKAR203 | HUMBLE FATHER AND PRODIGAL SON: WADE AND SECK [...] (C) With his Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) in shambles and poll numbers apparently dismal a month before elections, President Abdoulaye Wade has absolved ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck of alleged crimes and asked his one-time "spiritual son" for reconciliation. Seck's opposition coalitio [...] |
2007-01-24 18:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR2059 | SENEGAL: SIXTH CONSULTATIVE GROUP [...] SUMMARY: The sixth meeting of the Consultative Group (CG) for Senegal was convened at the World Bank's Paris Office on October 3-4, 2007. The meeting was chaired by Madani Tall, World Bank Director of Operations for Senegal. The 48-person Senegalese Delegation [press reports noted more than 100 [...] |
2007-10-18 12:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR2061 | DANCERS GETS PROBABTION FOR "OBSCENE DANCING" [...] (C) A recent obscenity case against a well-known dancer, Ndeye Gueye, has pitted social conservatives, imams, and Islamists against secularist and lawyers who say that this kind of jurisprudence poses a danger to Senegal's traditions of social and religious tolerance. Gueye was charged, tried [...] |
2007-10-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR2071 | 2008 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE: SENEGALESE CANDIDATE. [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-22 08:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR2091 | GOS WILL LIKELY SELL COMPANY SHARES AS PART OF ITS NEEDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal has announced plans to move forward on its much-touted privatization agenda and speed up its divestiture from three key public-private companies by early 2008: Sonatel (Telephone Company), ICS (Fertilizer Company) and Dakar Dem Dikk (public transporta [...] |
2007-10-25 07:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ELAB BTIO PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR2116 | SENEGALESE PRESIDENT PLANS TO VISIT ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is still planning to visit Zimbabwe and meet with President Robert Mugabe in an effort to succeed where South African President Thabo Mbeki has failed: relieving the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. To do so, according to President Wade, se [...] |
2007-10-30 13:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV SG ZI SF UK |
| 07DAKAR2117 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS FY2007 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the third and fourth quarters (April-September) of FY2007. Responses are keyed to Ref A. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Since the last report, the energy crisis has resurfaced, with sporadic daily blackouts, which affect the economic [...] |
2007-10-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
| 07DAKAR2118 | DEMARCHE FOR DAVID WALKER DELIVERED TO MFA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA SG |
| 07DAKAR2122 | SENEGALESE PRESIDENT IMPRISONS REPORTERS [...] (C) The Senegalese Police's Criminal Investigations Department (DCI) arrested Moussa Gueye, a journalist at the small Rufisque-based paper, "L'Exclusif" after they published an article entitled "The President,s Night Escapades." The police made the arrest in an effort to identify who in the P [...] |
2007-10-31 16:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PINS SG |
| 07DAKAR2134 | SENEGALESE SOCIALISTS IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMACY [...] (SBU) Senegal's main opposition party, the Socialist Party (PS), held its 14th Congress on October 27-28, 2007. Under the theme of "nouvel lan," they announced the beginning of a new march to regain the power they lost in 2000 when President Abdoulaye Wade's victory ended 40 years of Socialist [...] |
2007-11-02 12:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR2144 | DELIVERY OF MCC SCORECARD IS OCCASION FOR CRITICISM BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In receiving Senegal's FY08 MCC Scorecard, Presidential Advisor Aminata Niane criticized the MCC's lack of clarifying information in the annual indicators and the lack of flexibility by the MCC to help Senegal, an "important partner," achieve a compact. Minister Niane was not [...] |
2007-11-06 14:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON MCC SG |
| 07DAKAR2165 | ARE THE SENEGALESE SPEAKER'S DAYS NUMBERED? [...] (C) National Assembly President Macky Sall and presidential son Karim Wade's battle to succeed Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has become the source of an expanding rift within the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS). Partisans on both sides are flooding the media with accusations an [...] |
2007-11-09 09:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINS SOCI ECON PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR2187 | LETTER TO SECRETARY OF TREASURY PAULSON FROM SENEGALESE [...] (U) Embassy Dakar received a letter dated October 29 from Senegalese Minister of State and Minister of Finance Abdoulaye Diop for Secretary of Treasury Paulson asking that the Department of Treasury support provide training and capacity-building on techniques to capitalize on government bond i [...] |
2007-11-13 12:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR2211 | IS POLITICAL VIOLENCE ON THE HORIZON? [...] (S) In November 5 meeting Charge informed Barthelemy Dias, the new leader of the Socialist Party's youth movement and perennial presidential thorn in the side, that he had been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed that because of Dias's American citizenship the GOS believes [...] |
2007-11-14 14:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM CASC SG |
| 07DAKAR2212 | LA RENTREE POLITIQUE 2007 - SUCCESSION SUCCESSION, [...] (C) In "Rentree Poltique 2006," we characterized the Senegalese opposition as self-pitying, the people as angry at the cost of living, youth as depressed about their prospects, and President Abdoulaye Wade as personalizing power. Not only has nothing changed since then, but the situation has w [...] |
2007-11-14 15:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR2216 | SENEGAL: THE SYMPTOMS OF INSTABILITY [...] (SBU) In a November 2, televised address President Abdoulaye Wade called for a "sacred union of the nation" to confront the country's economic difficulties. He proposed to reduce the salaries of all workers to establish a national solidarity fund. He also announced that he had instructed the [...] |
2007-11-14 17:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR2258 | SENEGAL: THREATS AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (SBU) Recently four journalists, Moussa Gueye, Moussa Doucar (REF A), Pape Amadou Gaye, and Elhadj Malick Seck were all arrested and later ordered released by President Abdoulaye Wade in the face of serious pressure from the union of journalists and public opinion. Gaye, editor-in-chief of "L [...] |
2007-11-19 09:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR2259 | MAURITANIAN REFUGEES IN SENEGAL GOING HOME [...] (SBU) In a November 13 meeting hosted by the French Embassy, Rosaline Idowu, Regional representative for the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said that UNHCR and the governments of Senegal and Mauritania had signed an agreement to repatriate Mauritanian refugees living in Senegal. The [...] |
2007-11-19 10:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF MR SG |
| 07DAKAR2287 | SENEGALESE PRESIDENT WADE RESTRUCTURES HIS PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, Senegalese President Adoulaye Wade chaired a meeting of the Directorate of the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) where Macky Sall, president of the National Assembly, was removed as number two of the PDS (Wade is the party leader). The meeting also resolv [...] |
2007-11-21 16:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR231 | SENEGAL ON AU CHAIRMANSHIP VOTE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-26 14:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR2332 | Street Merchants Protest in Downtown Dakar [...] (U) Summary: On November 21, protests by small-time street vendors frustrated by a decision from Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to remove their ubiquitous street stalls from the streets of Dakar bubbled over into violent demonstrations. On Friday 23 November Wade retreated saying that the [...] |
2007-11-29 12:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR2363 | SENEGALESE PRESIDENT WADE DOWNSIZES CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 3, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade fired 11 ministers (including eight women) and hired one new one. This decision fulfills his recent promise to reduce the size of the cabinet to moderate government spending. The new cabinet features 28 members, down from 38, [...] |
2007-12-04 17:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR2364 | SENEGAL'S LIST OF MINISTERS [...] (U) As a result of the December 3 cabinet reshuffle, Senegal has a new cabinet with twenty-eight ministers. Cheikh Hadjibou Soumare, Prime Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of State, Minister of Economy and Finance C [...] |
2007-12-04 18:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR2376 | SENEGAL WANTS AUDIT OF ASECNA ACCOUNTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shortly after announcing its withdrawal from the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa (ASECNA) with an eye towards directly collecting civil aviation revenues, Senegal reversed its decision in favor of the status quo. However, Senegal demanded that ASECNA's Board of Dire [...] |
2007-12-07 09:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR2410 | Ivorian Reggae Star PNGed from Senegal [...] (SBU) Summary: Famed Ivorian Reggae star, Tiken Jah Facoly, was recently declared persona non grata in Senegal after commenting that if President Wade loved his people, he should step down from power. This decision once again spotlights the arbitrary nature of Senegal's judicial system and bri [...] |
2007-12-19 11:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI PINR SG |
| 07DAKAR2417 | IDENT REVIEW RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT SENEGALESE PASSPORT [...] (U) Embassy Dakar recently reviewed the cases of refused Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) applicants whose IDENT hits revealed mala fide identity changes. This review identified several instances when legitimate Senegalese documents were obtained using fraudulent information. Two patterns of identity [...] |
2007-12-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KCRM KFRD XY SG GA |
| 07DAKAR258 | SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-01 10:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR262 | SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | OVIP PGOV ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR275 | DETERIORATION IN THE CASAMANCE [...] (C) Senegalese Army reoccupation of the Casamance, initially somewhat successful, has proved unable to thwart rebel activity. Violence, while still largely concentrated in a northern triangle bordering on The Gambia, is becoming increasingly significant in the key city of Bignona, and rebel [...] |
2007-02-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC CASC SOCI PGOV PINR SG GA PU |
| 07DAKAR299 | SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO [...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...] |
2007-02-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG |
| 07DAKAR309 | SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO [...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...] |
2007-02-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG |
| 07DAKAR314 | BISHOPS, MARABOUTS, BUSINESSMEN AND STONE-THROWING [...] (C) The election campaign has begun, marked by President Abdoulaye Wade's reaffirmation of the importance to him of religion, and by the first acts of violence against major presidential candidates. Days before, the country's most activist and outspoken religious leader told visiting AF/W De [...] |
2007-02-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM KIRF SG |
| 07DAKAR355 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - FIRST QUARTER FY2007 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the first quarter (October-December) of FY2007. Responses are keyed to Reftel A. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: The economic situation in Senegal is difficult and has sparked concerns within the international donor community and am [...] |
2007-02-13 15:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
| 07DAKAR380 | NEXT WEEK'S ELECTIONS: SOME RANDOM OBSERVATIONS [...] In a four-day trip to seven cities, we found flaws in the newly created electoral process. Watchdog organizations are under-funded, under-equipped, undermanned, not always well managed, and inefficient. Meanwhile, 15 presidential campaigns crisscross the country, tying up roads and raising [...] |
2007-02-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PINS SG |
| 07DAKAR393 | SUNDAY'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: THERE'LL BE A [...] (C) President Abdoulaye Wade's people claim he will win the first round presidential election on February 25. Others, in sharp contrast, claim his private polls are so bad he could drop out of the race before Sunday. Amidst this fog of spin and speculation, and absent reliable polls, we find [...] |
2007-02-21 12:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ASEC PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR40 | SENEGAL'S RESPONSE TO MERCURY ISSUES DEMARCHE [...] SUMMARY: At the 24th Session of UNEP's Governing Council, Senegal will likely support efforts to establish a legally binding treaty to control mercury, believing that such a convention will be a significant asset in the administrative and legal control of mercury, according to Mrs. Fatima Dia [...] |
2007-01-08 08:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EMIN PREL AORC UNEP SG |
| 07DAKAR410 | DAKAR: EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING ON ELECTION [...] (U) The Ambassador convened the EAC on February 22, 2007, to review our security posture in light of election violence that broke out on the evening of February 21, 2007. 2. (U) According to a variety of sources, supporters of President Abdoulaye Wade clashed with supporters of opposition [...] |
2007-02-22 16:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV CASC PHUM PINS SG |
| 07DAKAR412 | GADIO REACTS TO CONDEMNATION OF ELECTION VIOLENCE [...] (C) Following the latest campaign violence on February 21 (reftel), I convened Embassy Dakar,s Emergence Action Committee. The Committee agreed on a number of steps to minimize danger to the private and official American communities. We also issued a press release condemning political viole [...] |
2007-02-22 17:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL OPDC OPRC SG |
| 07DAKAR416 | SENEGALESE VIEWS ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-23 08:44:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS UNSC GV SG |
| 07DAKAR426 | SENEGAL: ELECTION SITREP 1, 13:50 GMT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Senegal's 4.9 million registered voters appear to be voting in large numbers today in what most see as a referendum on President Abdoulaye Wade's seven years in office. The voters roll is twice as large as the 2000 list and includes many youth who had hoped Wade would create more [...] |
2007-02-25 13:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR427 | SENEGAL: ELECTION SITREP 2, 22:00 GMT [...] SUMMARY: Turnout in Senegal's presidential election remains heavy; so the Government extended voting until 23:00 GMT, with many people voting by candlelight. Disorganization deterred an unknown number of Senegalese from casting their ballots. Thousands of potential voters had still not recei [...] |
2007-02-25 22:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ASEC KDEM PGOV PINS SG |
| 07DAKAR437 | SENEGAL: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SITREP 3: WADE [...] (SBU) President Abdoulaye Wade is leading the first round presidential pack throughout the country and is ahead by surprising margins (80 percent in Touba) and in unexpected areas (Podor). The Government made an early claim that Wade was winning 57 percent, but the opposition is brandishing [...] |
2007-02-26 17:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS ASEC PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR448 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR REGIONAL [...] Ambassador Janice L. Jacobs and Embassy Dakar warmly welcome and grant country clearance to all participants for attendance at the RSI Conference to be held in Dakar on 13 March 2007 to: 2. CONFERENCE POINTS OF CONTACT: a) Embassy control officer will be RSO John Bray. Embassy Tel: [221] [...] |
2007-02-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC MASS OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR449 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR REGIONAL STRATEGIC [...] AMBASSADOR JANICE L. JACOBS AND EMBASSY DAKAR WARMLY WELCOME AND GRANT COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS FOR ATTENDANCE AT THE RSI CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN DAKAR ON 13 MARCH 2007 TO: 2. CONFERENCE POINTS OF CONTACT: A) EMBASSY CONTROL OFFICER WILL BE RSO JOHN BRAY. EMBASSY TEL: [221] [...] |
2007-02-28 15:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC MASS OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR450 | SENEGAL: ELECTION SITREP 4: SOME REASONS WHY WADE [...] (C) President Wade's allies and minions may have tried hard to manipulate Sunday's election, but as it turned out, they hardly needed to make the effort. Wade outclassed the competition by a comfortable margin, in highly competitive areas such as Kaolack and Saint Louis and even where he was [...] |
2007-02-28 15:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR457 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SENEGAL'S RESPONSE TO USG CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, Econ Counselor met separately with Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (CENTIF), Senegal's Department of Customs, and ECOWAS' Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), to exchange views on the capacity and willingness [...] |
2007-02-28 12:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER ECON EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR478 | SENEGAL: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SITREP 5: PROVISIONAL [...] (SBU) With the announcement of provisional election results, Senegal's voters gave incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade a comfortable victory. He won in 32 two of Senegal's 34 departments, gaining a national majority of 55.72 per cent with a vote tally of 1,873,907. With 70 percent turnout, th [...] |
2007-03-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR479 | SENEGAL: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SITREP 5: PROVISIONAL [...] (SBU) With the announcement of provisional election results, Senegal's voters gave incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade a comfortable victory. He won in 32 two of Senegal's 34 departments, gaining a national majority of 55.72 per cent with a vote tally of 1,873,907. With 70 percent turnout, th [...] |
2007-03-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR489 | A COMBATIVE WADE BLAMES SECK AND MEDIA FOR NEGATIVE IMAGE [...] (SBU) Within a few minutes of the announcement of preliminary official results, newly reelected President Abdoulaye Wade hosted a two-hour press conference in front of the media, his cabinet and the entire diplomatic corps. Rather than being magnanimous in victory, Wade blamed former Prime Mi [...] |
2007-03-02 11:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PGOV SG |
| 07DAKAR501 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. Following passage of its first trafficking-in-persons (TIP) law in April 2005, police now maintain a compute [...] |
2007-03-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF SG |
| 07DAKAR508 | TRANS-SAHARAN COUNTERTERRORISM PARTNERSHIP (TSCTP) [...] (C) The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) and the EUCOM Deputy Commander met in Dakar on February 6 and 7. There was general agreement that terrorism in North and West Africa is linked with organized crime, including illegal migration and traffickin [...] |
2007-03-05 17:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR547 | SENEGAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE THREAT AND THE [...] (S/NF) With a population of approximately 12 million, democratic, pro-Western Senegal should remain stable for the foreseeable future. Despite its predominately Islamic population and high levels of unemployment, there is no evidence, and indeed little chance, that Jihadist ideologies have t [...] |
2007-03-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC EAID PREL KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR554 | WHY WADE WON [...] (C) Defying predictions, President Abdoulaye Wade crushed all comers in the February 25 election. Senegalese disagree if there was fraud and on the degree of registration manipulation, but all concur President Wade had the money, machinery and message to win. Wade's charisma and an inconseq [...] |
2007-03-08 18:19:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PHUM PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR562 | SENEGAL NOT SUPPORTIVE OF USG PRIORITIES FOR HUMAN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-09 18:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC SG |
| 07DAKAR567 | FINAL RESULTS OF SENEGALESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] On March 11, Senegal's Constitutional Council rejected most of the appeals concerning election fraud and declared the final results: -- CANDIDATE VOTES PERCENT --------- ----- ------- Abdoulaye Wade 1,914,403 55.90 [...] |
2007-03-12 13:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR583 | SENEGAL AGOA - INPUT FOR 2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT [...] Following is embassy's input on Senegal for the 2007 President's report on AGOA keyed to the template outlined in reftel and last year's report as published by USTR. This text has also been provided to AF/W and AF/EPS via e-mail. 2. Begin embassy input: MARKET ECONOMY/ECONOMIC REFORM/E [...] |
2007-03-14 17:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SG |
| 07DAKAR588 | SENEGAL'S FY07 BUDGET RELYS ON HIPC SAVINGS AND DOMESTIC [...] Senegal's FY2007 (January 1 - December 31) budget expenditures of CFAF 1.519 trillion (USD 2.978 billion) represents an overall increase of 7.9 percent over the 2006 budget. For 2007, the Government of Senegal is anticipating revenues of CFAF 1.048 trillion (USD 2.0 billion) from domestic sou [...] |
2007-03-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR596 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT UPDATE: [...] (SBU) According to Judicial Police Director Ndoye, Senegal has successfully prosecuted two traffickers under the 2005 TIP law. Two Senegalese marabouts, Serigne Mamadou Thiam and Abdou Faye, were each sentenced to 18 months for sending boys from Senegal to Mali, with the intention of sending [...] |
2007-03-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF SG |
| 07DAKAR599 | 2007 DAKAR CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE: LESSONS [...] Post wishes to thank FSI for a successful crisis management exercise (CME). The timing of the exercise was excellent as Senegal prepared for its presidential elections in late February. The exercise enhanced post's crisis management preparedness and prepared post for the February crisis that [...] |
2007-03-15 17:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC ASEC KESS KCOM OTRA SG |
| 07DAKAR612 | AF PDAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD MEETS SENIOR MINISTER OF [...] (C) During a March 12, 2007 meeting with Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio, AF PDAS Thomas-Greenfield praised a peaceful Mauritanian election while Gadio expressed hope that the new President will rejoin ECOWAS and deal with the refugee situation. On Somalia, Gadio agreed that a clear messag [...] |
2007-03-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KDEM GV MR SO SU SG |
| 07DAKAR617 | NEA DAS GRAY MEETS FOREIGN MINISTRY SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: During a March 14, 2007 meeting, Senegalese Foreign Ministry Secretary General Claude Absa Diallo and NEA DAS Gordon Gray discussed Senegal,s hosting of the next Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) Summit, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran. Ambassador Diallo urged [...] |
2007-03-16 18:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAL IR SG |
| 07DAKAR633 | BUILDING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) On March 19, British Deputy Head of Mission Julia Edwards and DCM jointly delivered ref demarches to Mame Baba Cisse, the Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Cisse acknowledged that the creidibility of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is on the [...] |
2007-03-20 16:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SG ZI SU |
| 07DAKAR649 | SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006 [...] On March 16, Leopold Diouf, the Director General for National Security in the Ministry of Interior and Local Government, released crime statistics for 2006. He noted that Senegalese police seized 29 kilograms of cocaine; 8,396 tons of marijuana, and 129,232 capsules of various psychotropic dr [...] |
2007-03-21 11:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC KCRM SG |
| 07DAKAR666 | POSSIBLE SENEGAL-INDIA AGREEMENT TO REVIVE PHOSPHATE [...] (SBU) Two days before the reelection of President Wade, the Government of Senegal (GOS) and the India Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited Group (IFFCO) signed what is described as an interim agreement on February 23, to revive production at Senegal's national phosphates company, Industries [...] |
2007-03-22 17:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EIND ETRD IN SG |
| 07DAKAR673 | SENEGAL'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER STRIKE [...] (U) Led by the Confederation of Autonomous Unions (CSA), Senegal's 17,000 elementary school teachers staged a March 20 nationwide "warning" strike. Their objective was to demand equal implementation of a new benefit President Wade granted high school teachers on the eve of February 25 preside [...] |
2007-03-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR674 | PRESIDENT WADE SEEKS MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL BIOFUELS [...] (U) On March 22, Ambassador Claude Absa Diallo, the Acting Foreign Minister, convoked the DCM (then Charge) to present a March 8 letter from President Abdoulaye Wade to President George W. Bush seeking membership in the International Biofuels Forum that was launched in New York on March 2. An [...] |
2007-03-23 16:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG OPDC PREL SG |
| 07DAKAR682 | SENEGAL - RELATIVELY WELL-PREPARED FOR AVIAN/PANDEMIC [...] SUMMARY: Senegal appears relatively well-prepared to cope with an outbreak of Avian and/or Pandemic Influenza (AIPI). The Government of Senegal has an active AI working group and has hosted a number of AIPI conferences and exercises. The USG has also hosted several regional seminars on AIPI [...] |
2007-03-26 11:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU AMGT ASEC CASC KSAF SG |
| 07DAKAR696 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION ATTENDING [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for President Abdoulaye Wade's second inauguration on April 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United Sta [...] |
2007-03-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ELAB PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
| 07DAKAR705 | AMBASSADOR GROVER JOSEPH REES' VISIT TO DAKAR [...] (U) In meetings with the Senegalese government, civil society, NGOs and Catholic and Muslim religious leaders, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees, Special Representative for Social Issues, discussed U.S. contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS, the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, U.S. problems wi [...] |
2007-03-29 08:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO PHUM PINS PREL KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR777 | TSCTP/RSI CONFERENCE: LESS COUNTERTERRORISM, MORE [...] (S) SUMMARY: To succeed in the medium- and long-term against terrorism in the Trans-Sahara region, the USG must help countries address fundamental social, economic, and political problems that undermine their stability, concluded Ambassadors at the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership ( [...] |
2007-04-10 11:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PTER EAID MASS PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR785 | PARLIAMENTARY GENDER PARITY LAW NOT AS GOOD AS IT [...] (SBU) At President Wade's initiative, a new law requires gender parity in the proportional lists -- but not the constituency lists -- of candidates in future legislative elections. Many women consider this a major step forward, but one of the most outspoken, Penda Mbow, calls it a Wade campa [...] |
2007-04-10 18:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KWMN PINR KDEM SG |
| 07DAKAR82 | SENEGAL TO INCREASE TROOPS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) During a 12 December meeting at the Senegalese Armed Forces Headquarters, Senegalese Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Colonel Cherif Mbodj informed Embassy Dakar Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief that Senegal would be increasing the size of its troop contribution for the A [...] |
2007-01-10 11:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SG SU MOPS |
| 07DAKAR820 | SENEGAL CONTEMPLATING WITHDRAWAL FROM DARFUR [...] (C) On April 11, Senegal,s Council of Ministers issued a statement declaring that &If the African Union is not empowered and given the means to assure the safety of our people in the field, the Government of Senegal could foresee a pullout of its (532) peacekeepers.8 The statement deplored t [...] |
2007-04-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PKPO PREL SG SU |
| 07DAKAR823 | LABOR SECRETARY CHAO LEADS PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO [...] SUMMARY: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao led the presidential delegation to the second inauguration of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, as well as the 47th anniversary celebration of Senegal's independence from France and related events. During the April 3-5 festivities, Senegal hosted [...] |
2007-04-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP ELAB EAIR PGOV KMCA SG |
| 07DAKAR833 | WADE RE-INAUGURATED: IMAGINING SOLUTIONS TO [...] (C) The odd thing about President Wade's re-election is that few Senegalese are asking about his second-term plans: what they really want to know is whom he will anoint to succeed him. Meanwhile, with various opposition parties boycotting upcoming parliamentary elections, doubts about the fa [...] |
2007-04-16 18:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON PINS PINR KDEM KISL SG |
| 07DAKAR862 | SEEKING PUBLIC COMMITMENTS OF PERSONNEL FOR DARFUR [...] (SBU) With President Abdoulaye Wade in Nouakchott for the presidential inauguration and Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio out of the country, Charge made reftel demarche to Ambassador Mankeur Ndiaye, the Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ndiaye rep [...] |
2007-04-19 15:06:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU SG |
| 07DAKAR871 | SENEGAL: FY-2007 ESF AND INCLE PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] Embassy Dakar is pleased to submit four project proposals to strengthen and expand Senegal's commitment to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The proposals, listed in order of funding priority, would provide training in trafficking for law enforcement and health officials, give social assi [...] |
2007-04-20 12:30:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ASEC ELAB KCRM SMIG SG |
| 07DAKAR922 | NIGERIA: WADE SAYS LET THE COURTS DECIDE ON THE ELECTIONS [...] (U) On April 24, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's spokesman El hadji Amadou Sall issued a statement on the Nigerian elections in which he appealed for an end to election-related violence and called on parties to use the mechanisms provided in the Nigerian Constitution to settle disputes. [...] |
2007-04-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM NI SG |
| 07DAKAR940 | SENEGAL CURRENTLY HAS 2,681 SOLDIERS AND CIVPOL IN SIX [...] Eighty Senegalese peacekeepers who have been serving as civilian police (CIVPOL) in Haiti returned last week. With Senegal benefiting from the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) and Centers of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) programs, the Mission has [...] |
2007-04-27 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MCAP KPKO SG |
| 07DAKAR944 | GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA, PHASE [...] Senegal's National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) is using this Global Fund grant to introduce new artemesinin-based combination therapy (ACT) drugs for treatment of uncomplicated malaria, provide intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, and distribute insecticide-treated bednets. [...] |
2007-04-27 15:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV TBIO SOCI SG |
| 07DAKAR952 | EMBASSY DAKAR,S PROPOSALS FOR FY-2007 AMBASSADOR,S [...] Embassy Dakar is pleased to submit three proposals to aid organizations that provide critical assistance to refugees in Senegal. Each of the three USD 20,000 proposals focuses on the conflict-ridden Casamance region. The proposals consist of continuing a project to increase awareness of the [...] |
2007-04-30 17:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID SG |
| 07DAKAR962 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ SG |
| 07DAKAR963 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ SG |
| 07DAKAR996 | UPDATED EMBASSY AKAR PROPOSAL FOR FY 2007 [...] EmbassyDakar is pleased to re-submit one project proposa to aid an organization that provides critical asistance to refugees in Senegal. The proposal focses on assisting landmine victims in the Casamane region. PROPOSAL ONE: HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL-INGUICHOR -------------------------------- [...] |
2007-05-07 17:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID SG |
| 07DILI351 | TIMOR-LESTE TO PRESS FOR ASEAN ENGAGEMENT ON BURMA [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Ambassador met October 26 with Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano Da Costa to urge that Timor-Leste, as a candidate for accession to ASEAN, explore ways to press Burma. We stressed the importance of the issue to the United States, and expressed our appreciation for [...] |
2007-10-26 09:39:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEAN PO SG TT BM |
| 07MAPUTO934 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MARK CLACK TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Mark Clack (STAFFDEL), Foreign Relations Staff Member for Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), to travel to Mozambique, from August 16, 2007 through August 21, 2007. The purpose of this travel is to assess impact and effectiveness of [...] |
2007-08-08 12:55:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN FR IV SF GH SG MZ |
| 07NDJAMENA214 | CHAD: FY06 SECTION 1206 - MISI INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The N'djamena country team reviewed the Multi-National Information Sharing Program (MISI) options for Chad based on written and oral presentations from the MISI team. The country team decided that MISI could be beneficial to Chadian security services, primarily as a tool for internet [...] |
2007-03-09 17:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PARM AG CD MOPS NO SG TS |
| 07PARIS4693 | AF A/S FRAZER'S NOVEMBER 27 MEETINGS IN PARIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF A/S Jendayi Frazer met with Darfur rebel leader Abdul Wahid al Nur and, separately, with Presidential Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Bruno Joubert and MFA AF A/S Jean de Gliniasty on November 27. Abdul Wahid requested a range of U.S. assistance, professed his support for the U.S [...] |
2007-12-12 16:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EUN SU IV CD CT SG FR |
| 07SECTON03OF04DAKAR269 | SENEGAL: SENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-02 11:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG ECON |
| 07SINGAPORE1795 | SINGAPORE ISSUES STRONGER STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] (SBU) One day after we urged the Singapore MFA to do more on Burma (reftel), the DCM had the opportunity to ask Southeast Asia Director (D-G equivalent) Peter Tan for the GOS' latest thinking on the evolving situation. Tan said that in light of reports that the government crackdown had result [...] |
2007-09-27 09:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SG ASEAN BM |
| 07TOKYO499 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR GROVER JOSEPH REES [...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 07-09, 2007 visit to Japan by Ambassador Rees, Special Representative for Social Issues. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Scott Hansen. He can be reached at: Of [...] |
2007-02-02 09:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL BM ID RP SG TH WHO |
| 08ABUJA585 | SALE OF NIGERIAN C-130S TO SENEGAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a February 29 meeting with Nigerian Air Force officials, ODC Chief and Air Attach were apprised of the Government of Nigeria's sale-in-progress of three of their U.S.-purchased C-130 fleet to Senegal. While it initially appeared that Nigeria might be in violation of end-use ag [...] |
2008-04-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PGOV MARR MASS MCAP PM KFPC IS SG NI |
| 08BAKU210 | EMBASSY BAKU INFORMATION ON THE OIC SUMMIT IN DAKAR [...] (C) Per ref a, poloff informed the MFA of Sada Cumber's recent appointment. The Embassy also has communicated Cumber's interest in meeting with either Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov or Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikov. Both Azerbaijani officials will be at the conferenc [...] |
2008-03-07 11:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC SG OIC AJ |
| 08CAIRO465 | EGYPT'S DELEGATION TO THE OIC SUMMIT IN DAKAR, [...] (U) Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed that Egypt will participate in the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) Summit in Dakar from March 13-14. The Egyptian delegation's point of contact for meeting requests is Mohamed Hilal, Office of the Cabinet of the Foreign Ministe [...] |
2008-03-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SG OIC KISL EG |
| 08DAKAR1011 | PRESIDENT WADE FIRES BUDGET MINISTER AFTER REVELATIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 7 cabinet meeting, President Wade fired Budget Minister Ibrahima Sarr and named Mamadou Abdoulaye Sow, a career Senegal Treasury official, as the new Minister. The Presidential decree to remove Sarr -- which came just hours after Wade met the IMF Resrep -- fol [...] |
2008-09-02 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV ETRD EAID KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR1023 | SENEGAL-WADE TIGHTENS HIS GRIP ON THE JUDICIARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Alioune Niane, a long time embassy contact and a judge at the Court of Accounts, said that with recent judicial appointments, the reinstatement of the Supreme Court and his resignation as the head of the National Association of Judges, President Abdoulaye Wade's grip over the j [...] |
2008-09-08 09:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1036 | UNGA DEMARCHE: SENEGALESE FOREIGN MINISTER OPEN TO [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio on August 4. He responded enthusiastically that the United States and Senegal could work together to find points of commonality to yield mutual [...] |
2008-09-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN SG |
| 08DAKAR1046 | FINANCE MINISTER REGAINS CONTROL OF SENEGAL,S UGLY [...] (S) Summary: During an August 25 courtesy call, Senegal's Finance Minister Abdoulaye Diop revealed to the Ambassador that he had "wrested control" of Senegal's public finances from the Budget Ministry, subordinate to the Finance Ministry. In doing so, the former budget Minister, and ally of [...] |
2008-09-10 17:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | EFIN KCOR EAID ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR1067 | FARBA SENGHOR-PRESIDENT WADE,S FALL GUY [...] 1. (C) SUMMARY: On August 28, Farba Senghor, Minister of Air Transportation and, more importantly, public relations officer for the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) was forced to resign his ministerial post because of his alleged role in recent attacks on the newsrooms of "L'As" and "24 [...] |
2008-09-15 17:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN SG |
| 08DAKAR1079 | SENEGAL: WADE-SARKOZY ENCOUNTER GONE AWRY [...] (C) Summary: According to the French embassy, the recent meeting between the French and Senegalese presidents did not go well. The French were astonished that President Abdoulaye Wade spent most of the meeting talking about his belief that he will win a Nobel Peace Prize this year. End summa [...] |
2008-09-17 18:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR FR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1095 | SENEGAL: DEMARCHE REGARDING WADE'S COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: Under instruction from Senegal's President Wade and in the presence of his Mauritanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Gadio publicly reiterated on September 17 Senegal's support of the AU position condemning the use of coup d'etat. The Foreign Minister had briefed Wade on the ref [...] |
2008-09-19 13:19:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1100 | FARBA SENGHOR-GUILTY SAYS THE PROSECUTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an impromptu fifteen minute meeting with Ousmane Diagne, the prosecutor who investigated former Transport and Cultural Affairs Minister Farba Senghor and his acolytes' alleged involvement in the trashing of two Dakar newsrooms, he told us that as far as the evidence is concern [...] |
2008-09-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON PINR KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR114 | 2007 Country Reports on Terrorism: Senegal [...] The following narrative is Posts submission for the 2007 Country Terrorism Report (CTR): Senegal The Government of Senegal cooperated with the Untied States in identifying terrorist groups operating in Senegal. More work remained to be done, however, to develop first responder services, [...] |
2008-01-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KHLS AEMR SG KDMR |
| 08DAKAR1140 | INVESTIGATING SENEGAL'S BUDGET BLACKHOLE [...] (C) Summary: A special investigative IMF team came to Senegal to look into a budget crisis caused by revelations of massive extra-budgetary commitments. To bring back even a semblance of balance, the government must cut USD 240 million in expenditures and raise USD 360 million. The IMF does [...] |
2008-10-03 11:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR PGOV PREL EAID ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR117 | SENEGAL: A CONTROVERSIAL RETURN TO BICAMERALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Senegal's return to bicameralism, following a February 2007 amendment to the Constitution, was widely perceived as a huge waste of funds and driven by a desire to create privileges for a growing political class rather than strengthening the country's democratic architecture. Th [...] |
2008-01-29 16:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR119 | PRESIDENT WADE CHAIRS NEPAD ROUND TABLE ON AFRICAN [...] SUMMARY: A donor round table was held in Saly-Portugal, Senegal on January 23-24, 2008 to discuss the priorities of the Infrastructure Component of NEPAD. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal is the chairman on this component along with those of energy, environment, and information technology [...] |
2008-01-29 16:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR1190 | WESTERN DONORS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT BUDGET AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge accompanied a delegation of Ambassadors and international organization representatives to the Prime Minister,s office on October 10 to seek an update and clarification of the GOS,s payment arrears, off-budget expenditures and plans for the Government to bring accounts in [...] |
2008-10-17 12:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN SG |
| 08DAKAR1196 | Senegal: President Wade's Final Assault Against National [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 13, the Senegalese Congress (National Assembly and Senate in joint session) held an emergency meeting to amend the Constitution to allow for the removal of the President of the National Assembly, Macky Sall, from his post. Despite having applied tremendous political [...] |
2008-10-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1246 | SENEGAL'S ECONOMIC INDICATORS DROP AS THE GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal continues to struggle to find the means to pay off its large stock of internal debt owed to private suppliers. The accumulated effects of financial indiscipline and adverse exogenous factors are negatively impacting projected GDP growth, inflation, and government defic [...] |
2008-10-31 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR125 | RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO [...] (SBU) This cable is largely derived from the initial report by an interagency Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT), which conducted an onsite visit to Senegal November 5-9, 2007. The team met with a wide array of government and private sector entities in Senegal and came away with a nuance [...] |
2008-02-04 08:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER KCRM PREL SNAR PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR126 | RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-02-04 09:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER KCRM PREL SNAR PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR1279 | Senegal: The Misery of Local Democracy [...] (SBU) On October 29, President Abdoulaye Wade fired by decree Mbaye Ndiaye, the Mayor of the Parcelles Assainies suburb of Dakar for mismanagement. Ndiaye who is one of the old guards in the ruling party and a Deputy at the National Assembly has been punished for his loyalty to Macky Sall, th [...] |
2008-11-05 16:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1282 | SENEGAL ACHIEVES MILESTONE IN RENEWED EFFORT TO ACHIEVE AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: By presenting comprehensive concept papers in a timely manner for important projects, including roads, irrigation, and judicial reform, Senegal has achieved an important milestone in its effort to sign an MCC Compact. MCC Vice President John Hewko told the MCA-Senegal Steering [...] |
2008-11-05 17:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA ECON EFIN EINV ETRD SG |
| 08DAKAR1285 | Rains Cause Flooding in Dakar's Suburbs [...] (SBU) Summary: Severe rainfall from June through late September 2008 destroyed hundreds of homes, leaving thousands of people homeless or displaced in the highly populated Dakar suburbs of Pikine, Thiaroye, Guediawaye, Medina Gounass, Diamaguene, Dalifort, and Yeumbeul. As a result of flash f [...] |
2008-11-06 17:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM ECON SENV SG |
| 08DAKAR1286 | RELIGION IN SENEGAL-IBADU RAHMAN, THE SALAFISTS [...] (C) This is the first in a series of cables analyzing religion in Senegal. While the country is 95 percent Sunni Muslim, major differences exist between the various brotherhoods that dominate the Sunni-Sufi landscape which includes smaller, more conservative Sunni groups and Shia Muslims. Ad [...] |
2008-11-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL KIRF SG |
| 08DAKAR1298 | IMF MISSION HOPES FOR U.S. SUPPORT ON SENEGAL'S PSI AT [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and should not be shared outside of approved USG channels. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal's Policy Support Instrument with the IMF faces a critical Board Review and assessment in December. The Mission carrying out the second review of the program h [...] |
2008-11-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR1318 | GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS IMPACT ON SENEGAL [...] Summary: As the White House prepares to host the G-20 Summit to address current risks to the global economy, the likely impact on Senegal of the financial crisis is mixed. Neither Senegal nor the central bank of the Franc CFA monetary zone are holding the sophisticated mortgage and debt inst [...] |
2008-11-13 17:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID EMIN SG |
| 08DAKAR1325 | SENEGAL: DISMISSAL OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On November 9, the National Assembly voted 111 to 22 to remove Macky Sall from his position as president of the National Assembly. The sacking of Sall was the result of Sall's (likely politically motivated) attempt a year ago to convoke President Abdoulaye Wad [...] |
2008-11-17 07:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR1348 | President elect Obama calls President Wade [...] On November 19, the Spokesperson of the President's office announced that President Abdoulaye Wade received a telephone call from US President elect Obama. The following unofficial translation of the press release that was issued and read on the evening news broadcast of the Senegalese state [...] |
2008-11-20 16:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1351 | Senegal: National Assembly elects new Speaker [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On November 16, Senegal's National Assembly elected a new Speaker, Mamadou Seck, the former Chair of the Assembly's Finance Committee. His election ends the long saga between President Abdoulaye Wade and the former Chair of the Assembly, Macky Sall, who was ous [...] |
2008-11-20 17:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1378 | RELIGION IN SENEGAL-AL FALAH, THE WAHABBI [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables analyzing religion in Senegal. This cable concerns the Al Falah group who, along with Cemaat Ibadu-Rahman (reftel), is considered to be one of the country,s more conservative organizations. They are identified by many as being Wahabbi wit [...] |
2008-12-01 10:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PINS SOCI SG |
| 08DAKAR1395 | Senegal-Former National Assembly Chairman Creates his own [...] (U) Summary: On December 2, the recently ousted Chairman of the National Assembly, Macky Sall, called a press conference at the Hotel Teranga to announce the creation of his party. He announced that his new party is APR-Yakaar (Alliance for the Republic and the Wolof word for hope-Yakaar). En [...] |
2008-12-04 14:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR1401 | SENEGAL: FORMER PRIME MINISTER MACKY SALL [...] (C) Summary: On December 3 Political Counselor and PolOff met with the recently ousted president of the National Assembly, Macky Sall. The previous day Sall announced the creation of a new political party: the Alliance for the Republic Yakaar - APR Yakaar (Yakaar means hope in Wolof). Sall sa [...] |
2008-12-08 10:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI ECON PINR KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR1431 | SENEGAL'S LATEST TREASURY BONDS; A CREATIVE APPROACH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In early December, Senegal launched a USD 40 million treasury bond offering as one part of the government's plan to pay off the debt it owes to private sector contractors. In marketing the bonds, the regional central bank and the Ministry of Finance reportedly promised subscrib [...] |
2008-12-16 14:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD SG |
| 08DAKAR1432 | SENEGAL MEETS DEADLINE BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Senegal's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, has been scrambling to meet the prior actions and find new financing to cover the country's internal debt in advance of the IMF Board's judgment on the country's Policy Support Instrument (PSI) second review, scheduled for December 19. [...] |
2008-12-16 16:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV KCOR FR SG |
| 08DAKAR1435 | RELIGION IN SENEGAL: THE CATHOLICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third in a series of cables analyzing religion in Senegal. This cable concerns Catholics in Senegal. With a long established history, the Catholics are Senegal,s largest religious minority and continue to wield far greater influence in the country,s political, econom [...] |
2008-12-17 11:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL KIRF SCUL VT SG |
| 08DAKAR1442 | SENEGAL: Gadio Visits Mauritania [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SG MR |
| 08DAKAR1444 | Senegal: Imams Call for Civil Disobedience [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6, a group of imams (Muslim religious leaders) led a protest in the streets of the Guediawaye suburb of Dakar, to demand a reduction in the cost of electricity. They are threatening to refuse to pay their bills and to spread the protest by calling for the support of [...] |
2008-12-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ENRG ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR1450 | Senegal: Imams Call for Civil Disobedience [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6, a group of imams (Muslim religious leaders) led a protest in the streets of the Guediawaye suburb of Dakar, to demand a reduction in the cost of electricity. They are threatening to refuse to pay their bills and to spread the protest by calling for the support of [...] |
2008-12-19 14:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ENRG ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR1476 | SENEGAL: Youth Shot Dead by Military During Demonstration [...] (SBU) On December 23, 21-year-old Mamdaou Sinna Sidibe was shot dead by military personnel during a violent demonstration to protest against the poor living conditions and the lack of jobs in the mineral rich region of Kedougou in southeastern Senegal. Mr. Sidibe was a metal worker heading to [...] |
2008-12-29 17:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR1486 | SENEGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUINEAN COUP [...] (C) Summary: On December 30 following a meeting with Charge and Political Counselor, Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio publicly clarified Senegal's position regarding the recent coup d'etat in Guinea; Gadio stated that Senegal is not supporting a military regime" in G [...] |
2008-12-31 14:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR GV MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1488 | SENEGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: On December 30 Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio briefed Charge and Political Counselor on his December 17 visit to Mauritania and his meetings with ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Gadio said Pr [...] |
2008-12-31 15:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR151 | CASAMANCE OF SENEGAL: A STALLED PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: A permanent peace in the Casamance remains elusive since the fragmentation of the MFDC (Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance) following the death of its founder Father Diamacoune Senghor and the resulting in-fighting amongst the group's military wing, Atika. President Abd [...] |
2008-02-07 11:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PTER KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR153 | SENEGAL'S ACCELERATED GROWTH STRATEGY - MOVING FORWARD OR [...] SUMMARY: On December 31, 2007, Senegal's National Assembly passed a law to speed up the implementation of one of President Wade's cornerstone economic policies, the Accelerated Growth Strategy (AGS). The legislation also combines the AGS' goals into Senegal's 2006-2010 Poverty Reduction Stra [...] |
2008-02-07 11:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EINV SG |
| 08DAKAR154 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - FIRST QUARTER FY2008 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the first quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...] |
2008-02-07 13:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR155 | UPDATE ON STATUS OF HISSENE HABRE II [...] (SBU) On January 22, a delegation of judicial experts from the European Union (EU) concluded a series of discussions with the Government of Senegal on the ways and means to prosecute former Chadian President Hissene Habr. While it seems that the discussions went well and that the GOS said the [...] |
2008-02-07 17:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM SG CD |
| 08DAKAR165 | Senegal: Women in Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of conversations with some of Senegal's leading female political activists a picture has emerged of a gender that is becoming an increasingly important part of this country's complicated and yet sometimes monochromatic political environment. Today's political partie [...] |
2008-02-08 12:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI PINR SG |
| 08DAKAR176 | SENEGAL: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM OR GERRYMANDERING? [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1, Senegal's National Assembly passed a law to increase the number of administrative regions from 11 to 14, fulfilling an election promise that President Abdoulaye Wade made in February 2007. Described by Wade as an effort to bring government closer to citizens, oppo [...] |
2008-02-15 07:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR183 | SENEGAL RESTARTS MCC EFFORT WITH POSITIVE STEPS [...] (SBU) Summary: After four years of missteps and missed opportunities, Senegal is again pursuing a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact, with some positive initial efforts. Responding to MCC criteria for re-engagement, Senegal has established a new counterpart agency and has agreed t [...] |
2008-02-15 12:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON MCC SG |
| 08DAKAR187 | SENEGAL: CONTROVERSY OVER GAY MARRIAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1, a small-circulation magazine called "ICONE" published pictures of a 2006 homosexual marriage uniting a Senegalese male and a Ghanaian male. As a result, the National Police detained and interrogated five homosexuals identified in the pictures and subsequently re [...] |
2008-02-19 15:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM PHUM SG |
| 08DAKAR188 | SENEGAL: HESITANT REFUGEES RETURN TO MAURITANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 29, a group of 101 Mauritanian refugees returned home voluntarily under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). These refugees have been living in Senegal since being deported in 1989 by the Government of Mauritania. While some refu [...] |
2008-02-19 15:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PINS KDEM PHUM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR217 | PRESIDENT WADE CHAIRS NEPAD DONOR ROUND TABLE ON THE GREAT [...] SUMMARY: A donor round table was held in Saly Portugal, Senegal on February 12 - 13, 2008 to discuss the implementation of a $10.5 billion "Great Green Wall" that aims to develop a green belt from Dakar to Djibouti. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, as chairman of NEPAD's environmental co [...] |
2008-02-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR227 | SENEGAL COUNTING ON MITTAL TO JUMP-START THE COUNTRY'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Econ Counselor, Mr. Birame Diouf, Managing Director of Miferso, Senegal's mining sector parastatal, explained details of Senegal's iron ore mining agreement with India's ArcelorMittal, as well as the status of a lawsuit brought by South Africa's Kumba Resources [...] |
2008-02-26 15:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ECON ETRD EINV ELAB SG |
| 08DAKAR236 | SENEGAL FOOD SECURITY THREATENED BY CEREAL AND FORAGE [...] SUMMARY: Senegal's food security for the remainder of the dry season in 2008 is threatened by the effects of late and erratic rains that ended early in many areas throughout Senegal in 2007. The net effect has been a reduced cereal crop (sorghum, millet and rice) and an acute shortage of fora [...] |
2008-02-28 15:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR2437 | SENEGAL'S INFLUENTIAL MOURIDE LEADER DIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The extremely influential leader of the powerful Mouride brotherhood, Serigne Saliou Mbacke, died on Friday evening after 17 years in charge. He was 92 and the last surviving son of Mouride founder Cheikh Amadou Bamba. He has been succeeded as Khalife-General by his nephew Se [...] |
2008-01-01 00:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS ECON KDEM KISL SG |
| 08DAKAR2438 | SENEGAL-PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEFIES [...] (SBU) Pressed on December 28 by President Wade to resign from his position as Chairman of the National Assembly, Macky Sall, one of Wade's former Prime Ministers, refused to do so indicating that he had "done no wrong." This is an unprecedented riposte for the ruling PDS (Democratic Party of [...] |
2008-01-01 00:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR262 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) As was the case in previous years Senegal continues to devote, time, resources and attention to combat trafficking in persons. 2. (U) responses are keyed to questions in reftel Begin TIP report PARA 27: OVERVIEWS OF A COUNTRY'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. Senega [...] |
2008-03-04 14:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SG |
| 08DAKAR268 | SENEGAL: A NEW CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN UNIVERSITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Senegal's university students have begun using violent protests again to put pressure on President Abdoulaye Wade. Regular confrontations between the police and university students are reminiscent of the late '80s when the country was undergoing a profound malaise and desperate [...] |
2008-03-05 11:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR364 | Ambassador Swing Meets OIC Members [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a two-day visit to Senegal to promote his candidacy for the position of director-general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on the margins of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Summit in Dakar, Ambassador William L. Swing met with key mem [...] |
2008-03-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF SG |
| 08DAKAR386 | SENEGAL: POLICE CRUSH PROTEST AGAINST HIGH COST OF LIVING [...] (U) Summary: On March 30, two Senegalese consumer associations organized a demonstration against the steady rise of the costs of basic commodities and food staples. Riot police arrested the leaders of the two associations and used electric batons, tear gas, and riffle butts to forcefully bre [...] |
2008-04-01 13:02:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR423 | SENEGAL CELEBRATES 48TH ANNIVERSARY IN MALAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the eve of Senegal's April 4th Independence Day celebrations, President Abdoulaye Wade delivered his address to the nation during which he tried to galvanize the armed forces around a Pan-African defense concept and urged young people to be good citizens. Yet, he offered lit [...] |
2008-04-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR424 | PRICE HIKES CHALLENGE SENEGAL'S SOCIAL STABILITY [...] SUMMARY: Senegalese, especially urban dwellers, are somewhat bewildered by the recurrence and scope of price hikes in local markets, supermarkets, and from specialty vendors. Price increases in gasoline, cooking fuel, vegetable oil, rice, sugar, cement, and transportation services have creat [...] |
2008-04-10 11:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR442 | IMF MISSION SHARES POSITIVE BRIEF WITH SKEPTICAL DONORS [...] (SBU) On April 9, an IMF mission shared with donors its mostly positive assessment of Senegal's economy and the first review of Senegal's Policy Support Instrument (PSI). Mission head Johannes Mueller claimed that Senegal's GDP growth increased from 2.3 percent in 2006 to 4.8 percent in 2007, [...] |
2008-04-16 15:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR448 | SENEGAL AMENDS ITS CONSTITUTION TO PROSECUTE HABRE [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, the Senegalese National Assembly amended article 9 of Senegal's Constitution to enable local courts to prosecute former Chadian President Hissene Habre. The debate was passionate and took three-and-a-half hours. The overwhelming majority of President Abdoulaye Wad [...] |
2008-04-18 09:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR451 | SENEGAL-THE RETURN OF THE SUPREME COURT [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, the Senegalese National Assembly passed a law reforming the judicial system to reinstate a Supreme Court. According to the government, this will streamline the system by allowing budgetary savings and harmonizing jurisprudence. The Association of Judges called the [...] |
2008-04-18 10:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR496 | SPECIAL ENVOY MEETS WITH OIC CHAIR, PRESIDENT WADE [...] (C) Summary: On April 22 Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber, accompanied by Charge and political counselor, met with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade in his new capacity as the chairman of the 57-nation OIC following Senegal,s hosting of the OIC s [...] |
2008-04-29 13:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | OIC KISL PGOV PREL AORC KV SR SG |
| 08DAKAR497 | WADE LAUNCHES GOANA AS RESPONSE TO FOOD SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to increasing reports of current and future food shortages in Senegal (Reftels), on April 18, President Abdoulaye Wade launched a confusing and fiscally questionable initiative he claimed will address current food insecurity and greatly increase future agricultural p [...] |
2008-04-29 17:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID EAGR PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR500 | OIC SPECIAL ENVOY MEETS WITH SENEGALESE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: On April 22 Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber, accompanied by Charge and political counselor, met with Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidane Gadio to discuss his country,s new role as chair of the 57-nation OIC following Senegal,s h [...] |
2008-04-30 10:02:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL OIC IS SY KV SG |
| 08DAKAR501 | ISRAELIS DISTRESSED BY SENEGALESE PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On April 29, the Israeli Ambassador to Senegal (please protect) called on Charge to express his country,s concerns about President Abdoulaye Wade,s efforts to inject himself and his country into the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He said President Wade is misrepresenting the [...] |
2008-04-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS SY SG |
| 08DAKAR521 | SENEGAL: THE OPPOSITION'S THREATENS TO USE VIOLENT TACTICS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, the youth movements of Senegal's opposition parties organized a demonstration to protest rising commodities prices. This heralds a new strategy for the opposition, which is looking to gain some political advantage from the government's poor economic policies. Unl [...] |
2008-05-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR523 | RESPONSE ON IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal's 2007-08 cereal deficit is estimated at 1.4 million metric tons (MT), a significant increase from previous years. The country could face a cereal shortage of 250,000-400,000 MT in the next six months and with low global stocks and high commodity prices, it is not know [...] |
2008-05-06 14:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR529 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - SECOND QUARTER FY2008 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the second quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...] |
2008-05-08 07:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR53 | SENEGAL-PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MAKES PEACE WITH [...] (SBU)Summary: With the mediation of the brand new Caliph-General of the Mouride Brotherhood, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and National Assembly speaker Macky Sall have apparently patched up their differences. What remains unclear is if this detente is a case of forgive and forget or ju [...] |
2008-01-14 11:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR530 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - SECOND QUARTER FY2008 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the second quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...] |
2008-05-08 07:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR534 | SENEGAL'S UNIONS PREPARING MULTIPLE STRIKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fed up with President Abdoulaye Wade's confrontational attitude and refusal to communicate, Senegal's major unions are getting ready to strike. The country's main unions are preparing to hold a general strike, while teacher's unions have just announced that they will strike for [...] |
2008-05-08 17:17:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR539 | SENEGAL DISTURBED BY IRANIAN ARMING OF THE GAMBIA [...] (C) On May 7, the Senegalese Foreign Ministry's director of the African and Asian Affairs Division, Momar Gueye, told Political Counselor his government is "disturbed" by Iran's efforts to build a security relationship with the Gambia. In particular, he said Senegal is concerned about Iran pr [...] |
2008-05-09 11:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GA SG |
| 08DAKAR572 | SENEGAL AGREES WITH SOUTH AFRICA ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade sent his Foreign Minister on May 1 to Harare to urge Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to allow the electoral commission to release March 29 election results and to accept the outcome. According to Momar Gueye, the Foreign Ministry's director o [...] |
2008-05-16 13:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI SF SG UK |
| 08DAKAR601 | ASECNA EVICTED FROM SENEGAL'S AIRPORTS - NEW POLICY FOR [...] This is an action request for PM/ISO and AF/W; see paras 10-11. 2. Summary: On May 10, following the previous day's announcement by Minister of Civil Aviation, Farba Senghor, the government of Senegal (GOS) took over operations of Senegal's airports, essentially kicking out the regional a [...] |
2008-05-23 12:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EFIN SG |
| 08DAKAR637 | SENEGAL: OPPOSITION LAUNCHES NATIONAL DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite tremendous government pressure and intimidation against it, Senegal's main opposition has successfully kicked off a three- to six-month long National Dialogue (Assises National) to diagnose and propose solutions to the country's political, economic and social problems. [...] |
2008-06-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR647 | SENEGAL: WADE WAGES FOOD FIGHT AGAINST FAO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade continued his campaign against the FAO during the World Food Summit, calling for the UN agency to be disbanded. Many believe his attacks on the organization have more to do with domestic politics than international food aid policy. President Wa [...] |
2008-06-05 12:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID EAGR PREL ECON UN FAO SG |
| 08DAKAR649 | PRESIDENT WADE'S MONUMENT TO THE REBIRTH OF AFRICA: LOOKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an effort to leave a legacy for himself that identifies with the glories of Africa's past achievements and even more with Africa's future, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has mobilized Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, a Senegalese architect and businessman, to arrange the construct [...] |
2008-06-05 12:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR661 | IMF RESREP SPEAKS OUT ON SENEGAL'S BUDGET PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: During recent press interviews, IMF Resrep Alex Segura underscored growing concerns about Senegal's critical budget deficit. He stated that the deficit (currently estimated at more than USD 300 million) could weaken the economy and speculated that the government could have dif [...] |
2008-06-06 14:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR675 | BUDGET MINISTER TRIES TO REASSURE CHARGE ON GOS' [...] (S) Senegal's Budget Minister Sarr attempted to reassure Charge that the government's proposal to sell its large stake in Sonatel is being carefully studied with an eye to preserving the national interest. The impression he gave, however, was that the Presidency is determined to sell, and li [...] |
2008-06-10 15:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | EFIN EINV KCOR PGOV PREL EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR688 | SENEGAL: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE [...] (U) The majority of working children can be found in agriculture, livestock herding, hunting, fishing, domestic service, sewing and weaving activities, transportation, construction, as well as in automobile repair shops, restaurants, and hotels. Children also work in hazardous conditions in ro [...] |
2008-06-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR714 | LOTS OF GAS BUT NO MONEY TO PAY FOR IT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Rogers Beall, CEO of oil and gas concern Fortesa International, he said his Senegal concession has proven natural gas reserves of 1 trillion cubic feet (TCF) and that they already have the capacity to deliver over 300,000 CF per day if and when the state electr [...] |
2008-06-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET BTIO ENRG EINV SENV ECON EFIN SG |
| 08DAKAR732 | BUDGET MINISTER TRIES TO REASSURE CHARGE ON GOS' [...] (S) Senegal's Budget Minister Sarr attempted to reassure Charge that the government's proposal to sell its large stake in Sonatel is being carefully studied with an eye to preserving the national interest. The impression he gave, however, was that the Presidency is determined to sell, and li [...] |
2008-06-20 12:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | EFIN EINV KCOR PGOV PREL EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR733 | SENEGAL: WADE CONTINUES TO INJECT HIMSELF INTO [...] (C) Summary: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade continues to insert himself into the Middle East peace process (reftel). He recently held the first of seven rounds of talks with representatives from Fatah and Hamas with the goal of bringing about Palestinian reunification. He claims that h [...] |
2008-06-20 14:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IS SG |
| 08DAKAR765 | SENEGAL: Journalists Beaten by Police [...] (SBU) On June 21, 2008 two sports journalists, Boubabcar Dieng and Karamoko Thioune working for local radio stations were severely beaten by police after the conclusion of a soccer match between Liberia and Senegal. According to reports the journalists were then taken into temporary on-site c [...] |
2008-06-30 16:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO PINR SG |
| 08DAKAR771 | WADE TAKES CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] SBU) Summary: On June 24, the National Assembly renewed its leadership. The changes further isolated the President of the National Assembly, Macky Sall, whose main supporters lost their positions. END SUMMARY. Harassing the Chair of the National Assembly ---------------------------------- [...] |
2008-07-01 13:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR778 | SUDATEL SHOULD BRING A NEW DYNAMIC TO SENEGAL'S ICT [...] SUMMARY: According to sources from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Telecommunications, Sudanese telecommunications company Sudatel should begin its business operations and ICT infrastructure investment in Senegal in October 2008. Though Sudatel claims to be an independent, private firm, j [...] |
2008-07-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINV EFIN ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR783 | Fighting Domestic Violence in Senegal [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 27, 2008 the Committee to Combat Domestic Violence against Women (CLVF) held its annual general assembly to review and assess the situation of domestic violence in Senegal. Participants, representing a wide swath of civil society groups, NGOS and foreign missions, focused [...] |
2008-07-03 09:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SCUL KJUS SG |
| 08DAKAR813 | SENEGAL'S JUNE BOND ISSUANCE FALLS SHORT [...] SUMMARY: On June 19, Senegal's Ministry of Finance launched two treasury debt products through the regional central bank. The result was disappointing for the government, with only USD 155 million purchased out of the total issuance of USD 238 million. The GOS is planning to use this revenu [...] |
2008-07-10 17:28:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR818 | HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION AND SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS [...] A joint visit by State Department PM/WRA Program Manager Deborah Netland, AFRICOM Humanitarian Mine Action Manager Senior Chief Joseph Severino to Dakar, Senegal and (with Dakar demining watcher) Guinea-Bissau from 15-22 May shed valuable light on the progress in demining and arms and ordnance [...] |
2008-07-11 11:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM HDP SG |
| 08DAKAR821 | SENEGAL'S PREPARATION FOR THE 2008 AGOA FORUM [...] SUMMARY: On July 9, Senegal's Ministry of Trade Mamadou Diop Decroix convened a stakeholder meeting to evaluate the preparations for the GOS' participation in the July 14-16 AGOA Forum. He also spurred a debate as to why AGOA has been a failure in Senegal. Representatives from the private se [...] |
2008-07-14 10:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SENV EAGR EINV EFIN EAID SG |
| 08DAKAR824 | SENEGAL BALKS AT PASSING TERRORISM FINANCING LAW [...] (S) SUMMARY: The UEMOA Council of Ministers has approved a uniform law (directive) by the regional Central Bank for countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). The law has been forwarded to Senegal and other member states for ratification by country parliaments. According to Senegal's Finan [...] |
2008-07-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PTER KTFN ECON PGOV PREL KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR825 | AN INSIDER'S CRITICAL VIEW OF PRESIDENT WADE'S [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a June 28 lunch at a local restaurant with Econ Counselor, one of President Wade's Financial/Economic Advisors, Habib Mbaye, quietly offered a starkly negative view of Wade's policies and priorities, and also the corrupt influence of the President's son, Karim. Mbaye (str [...] |
2008-07-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PREL KCOR ECON KMCA SG |
| 08DAKAR828 | WADE SEEKS TO EXTEND PRESIDENT'S TERM IN OFFICE [...] SBU) Summary: On July 11, the Legislation Committee of the National Assembly approved a draft constitutional Amendment that will extend the President's term from five to seven years. If approved by the Assembly plenary session in a week, it will still need to be passed by the Senate and subseq [...] |
2008-07-16 14:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR830 | IMPLEMENTATION OF CHAD/SUDAN PEACE ACCORD [...] (C) Summary: The fourth meeting of the Contact group for the implementation of the Dakar Accord between Chad and Sudan is scheduled to take place on June 17. The meeting follows the June 23-27 meeting military experts group, detailed below. The military experts adopted a basic draft operatio [...] |
2008-07-16 19:29:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS CD SU SG GB CF ER LY |
| 08DAKAR837 | CONTACT GROUP ADOPTS MILITARY PLAN FOR SUDAN AND [...] (C) Summary: On July 17 at the fourth meeting of the Contact Group for the implementation of the Dakar Accord between Chad and Sudan, Foreign Ministers and representatives endorsed a draft military plan for the Peace and Security Force to monitor the border between Chad and Sudan. In additio [...] |
2008-07-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS CD SU SG GB CF ER LY |
| 08DAKAR852 | SENEGAL ASKS DONORS TO SPEED BUDGET SUPPORT AND TAXES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal (GOS) appears increasingly desperate to find the means to cover its current accounts deficit. At the request of the Minister of Finance, on July 10 the IMF Resrep sent an email to a number of donors imploring them to accelerate their disbursements of d [...] |
2008-07-22 17:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID EAIR ECON PGOV SG |
| 08DAKAR855 | SENEGAL: WADE TO VISIT US WITH MASSIVE ENTOURAGE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-23 11:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SG |
| 08DAKAR857 | SENEGALESE MEDIA BLACKS OUT [...] SUMMARY: On 21 July, private Senegalese media sources observed a news blackout as a show of solidarity in support of two Senegalese sports journalists beaten by police on 22 June (retel). Journalists are demanding the Government of Senegal (GOS) take punitive action against the officers invo [...] |
2008-07-23 16:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PGOV KPAO SG |
| 08DAKAR866 | SENEGAL/TERRORISM FINANCING LAW - MORE CONCERNS [...] (S) Summary: Despite professional and perhaps personal risk, Senegal's Minister of Finance, via the IMF Resrep, wants the USG to know that President Wade does not want to move forward with required counter-terrorism financing legislation. Wade is reportedly worried about the enhanced invest [...] |
2008-07-28 07:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PTER KTFN ECON PGOV PREL KCOR SG |
| 08DAKAR917 | SENEGAL: PRESIDENTIAL TERM OF OFFICE INCREASED [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 28, the Senegalese National Assembly adopted a constitutional amendment to increase the presidential term of office from five to seven years. To end rumors that President Abdoulaye Wade was seeking to increase his term, the GOS finally inserted in the amendment a sente [...] |
2008-08-08 08:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG |
| 08DAKAR918 | SENEGAL MODIFIES CONSTITUTION TO TRY HABRE [...] (U) Former Chadian President Hissene Habre has moved one step closer to being put on trial. On July 23, Senegal's Senate and National Assembly met in congress to vote on a number of proposed amendment's to the country's constitution which had already previously passed separate votes in both [...] |
2008-08-08 08:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG |
| 08DAKAR943 | SENEGAL: MAURITANIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Following a brief discussion (ref A) regarding the coup in Mauritania with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Ambassador Bernicat delivered the demarche contained in ref B on August 11. Wade strongly doubted the utility of Senegal issuing a public statement condemning the coup, claiming: [...] |
2008-08-17 12:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SG |
| 08GENEVA637 | SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE OIC LAYS OUT PLANS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber used his July 22 meetings with representatives of various OIC missions represented in Geneva to highlight his plans for greater USG-OIC dialogue. All his interlocutors expressed enthusiasm for t [...] |
2008-07-31 12:08:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KIRF AF MY ID SG TU |
| 08JEDDAH88 | ENGAGING THE OIC: A STRATEGY FOR THE NEW SPECIAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Building on Post's unprecedented and steadily increasing interaction with the OIC during the past two years, Post has learned much of OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu's intentions and how he has shaped and will continue to influence the OIC agenda. During his tenure, Ihsanoglu ha [...] |
2008-02-19 18:24:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PREL PHUM KISL KPAL SG SA |
| 08KUALALUMPUR142 | MALAYSIA LOOKS TO SENEGAL TO INVITE KOSOVO FOR OIC [...] (C) The Malaysian Foreign Ministry's OIC envoy, Ambassador Ibrahim Abdullah, told Political Section Chief on February 29 that Senegal as the host should invite Kosovo to the March OIC summit in Dakar, responding to ref A demarche. Given that some OIC members did not support Kosovo's independe [...] |
2008-02-29 10:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC KVIR SG MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR159 | MALAYSIA AND OIC SPECIAL ENVOY CUMBER'S REQUEST [...] (U) We informed the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's OIC division on March 7 of Special Envoy Cumber's interest in a meeting with the Malaysian delegation at the OIC Summit in Dakar. We also provided contact telephone numbers per reftel. We have copied the same information to Malaysia's chief O [...] |
2008-03-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OIC KISL SG MY |
| 08NDJAMENA413 | ASMARA CONTACT GROUP MTG ON CHAD/SUDAN: READ OUT [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-15 14:58:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU CD LY KPKO ER SG UN |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT688 | NEIGHBORING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 10 Addis Ababa Communique and the transfer of President Abdallahi to Lemden, Charge checked with embassies of Mauritanias neighbors Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal to discuss their views on the situation. As could be predicted, Algeria and Mali line up [...] |
2008-11-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AG ML MO SG MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT765 | REASON FOR SENEGALESE VISIT STILL UNCLEAR [...] (C) Charge met December 22 with Senegalese Ambassador Mahmoudou Cheikh Kane to follow up on the December 15-16 visit to Mauritania of Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio (REFTEL). Kane said President Wade had sent his Foreign Minister to assess the political situation on the eve of President A [...] |
2008-12-22 18:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
| 08PARIS575 | CHAD-SUDAN AGREEMENT: BORDER CONTROL OPERATION [...] (C) In response to reftel, MFA AF DAS-equivalent Christine Fages (responsible for Chad) said on March 27 that the most important step in ensuring the effectiveness of the Dakar Chad-Sudan Peace Agreement would be the formation and deployment of a border monitoring operation. She said that s [...] |
2008-03-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CF CT CD SY SG FR |
| 08SINGAPORE1024 | RSVP: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), CommAttache TODD AVERY, CommS [...] |
2008-09-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP |