Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Partyand has led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term...
NationalitySenegalese
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 May 1926
CountrySenegal
If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict,