Macky Sall, a good student of Obama

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Macky Sall, a good student of Obama

Senegalese President Macky Sall, host U.S. President Barack Obama March 28, 2012. His predecessor, Abdoulaye Wade, was less fortunate. He had, in vain, feet and hands to get invited to the table of the President of the first world power. President Macky Sall has quickly learned the lesson of President Barack Obama during his visit to Ghana July 11, 2009.

Senegalese president's visit to the White House, beyond the prestige, it is symbolic. Why Barack Obama opens the door to the White House and Macky Sall has closed Abdoulaye Wade. President most graduate from Cape to Cairo. The great intellectual. To answer this question, we must go back to the speech of U.S. President Barack Obama, before the Ghanaian Parliament July 11, 2009. "Do not be fooled. History is on the side of brave Africans and not in the camp of those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power. Africa does not need strongmen, it needs strong institutions "President Obama launched at the place of corrupt African leaders. A message that the former President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade has failed decrypt. His project monarchical devolution of power, with a backdrop, the vote on the draft law establishing the Presidential ticket, with 25% of votes of the electors to be elected in the first round. But thanks to the vigilance of civil society and the determination of youth and opposition Senegalese who came out en masse in the streets June 23, 2011 to defend their constitution, President Wade has declined. The bill was withdrawn from the circuit. Nevertheless, he returned to the charge by heady run for a third term in flagrant violation of the Constitution. A third term of President Wade had baffled the White House. Who has not failed to bring him to his knowledge. In a letter addressed to the President of the Republic of Senegal, in December 2011, the Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson asked Abdoulaye Wade to "renounce to appear" on the presidential election in February 2012 . Because its application would be "a source of destabilization of Senegal."

Hearing on 28 May 2010 (Bernicat-Wade). Senegalese still remember the audience granted by the former head of state, Abdoulaye Wade, the former Ambassador of the USA in Senegal and Guinea Bissau, Marcia Bernicat, Friday, May 28, 2010. Wade had before the cameras of state television (RTS) in the newscast (Jt) for 20 hours, made a sortie against muscular Marcia Bernicat. The State Department was outraged after the release muscular media of President Wade. He could not understand that Rts diffuse sequences attacks on the green and not ripe Wade ignoring replicas salty Ms. Bernicat at this hearing. The reason for this rage against Abdoulaye Wade in the Usa, the statement that the Usa Embassy in Dakar has published widely in the Senegalese press on Friday 28 May 2010 on the concerns of U.S. authorities on corruption and looting of public funds. An output that was installed discomfort between Senegal and the USA. In June 2010, Ambassador Mrs Bernicat had been recalled by the U.S. State Department to see more clearly the face-to-face heated with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. Another factor that has led Usa closed the door of the White House in the former Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, are the multiple violations of the freedom of the press since his accession to power. Convening untimely reporters at the Criminal Investigation Division, attacks against journalists (Case Kambel Dieng and Kara Thioune) and attacks the headquarters of newspapers (Case Ace and 24 hours Chrono). A situation that has brought "Freedom House" pinned Senegal in its 2011 report to the ranking in the yellow area is reserved for countries where press freedom is mixed and is clearly visible on the map of the state of press in the world at the Newseum in Washington DC. President Macky Sall, who just moved in power has caused strong actions that reassure the United States. Institutional reforms announced (reducing its term of 7 to 5, the tracking of ill-gotten gains, good governance) are among other elements that make Americans believe that Macky Sall has well decrypt the message of Barack Obama in Accra July 11, 2009. The working visit in July 2012, the former Secretary of State Hillary Rodman Clinton Dakar "greet the Senegalese democracy and strengthen the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries" and the discourse of best wishes the year 2012 the Ambassador of the USA in Dakar, Lewis Lukens, published in the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Embassy in Senegal, where he presented Senegal as "a model of good governance and democracy at work in Africa, "foreshadowed the color of good dispositions of Washington to welcome the President Macky Sall. The good student Barack Obama.

HAROUNA  FALL