Abdoulaye Wade News

In this file photo Danish president of the UN climate conference, Connie Hedegaard joins UN climate chief Yvo de Boer the Copenhage Summit.

Police battled demonstrators outside the UN climate summit on Wednesday as leaders of developing nations let rip at wealthy counterparts, exposing the huge obstacles facing a deal to tame global warming.

Rich nations Wednesday offered the first sign of progress at a UN climate summit, pledging 3.5 billion dollars to fight deforestation as talks bogged down on procedures and were marred by clashes.

Police battled demonstrators outside the UN climate summit on Wednesday as leaders of developing nations let rip at wealthy counterparts, exposing the mighty obstacles facing a deal to tame global warming.

Statistical development is hampering human development in Southern Africa and awareness of the use of statistics is essential to track progress and strengthen decision-making. This need to build capacity in the development and use of statistics in southern Africa, and the rest of Africa, was one of the conclusions of a recent international ...

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has said mayors in France can sell any hidden properties which belong to him, after being accused of corruption.

Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade told Frenchmayors to sell all his alleged property in a declaration communicated to AFP Sunday, following an embezzlement complaint against four African leaders.

The Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea , a coal ition of political parties, has called for the withdrawal from power of the Nati o nal Council for Democracy and Development , the military junta which has ruled the country since 23 December, 2008.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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