https://www.alterinter.org/ We are social and political movements struggling against social injustices, neoliberalism, imperialism and war. We are building solidarity between social movements at the local, national and international level. More... en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.alterinter.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-c616d.png?1749672047 https://www.alterinter.org/ 42 144 https://www.alterinter.org/?Protesters-Urge-President-to-Step-Down-in-Senegal https://www.alterinter.org/?Protesters-Urge-President-to-Step-Down-in-Senegal 2011-07-25T20:02:02Z text/html en Adam Nossiter <p>DAKAR, Senegal — Thousands filled a sandy plaza here Saturday to demonstrate against Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, who is trying to extend his time in office in what critics say is a violation of the country's Constitution. <br class='autobr' /> The attempt by the 85-year-old president has unleashed a wave of protests, some violent, in a poor West African nation that alone among its neighbors has a long tradition of relative democracy. There has never been a coup d'etat in this former French colony, and (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.alterinter.org/?-NEWS-AND-ANALYSIS-" rel="directory">NEWS AND ANALYSIS</a> <img src='https://www.alterinter.org/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH101/arton3605-4d884.jpg?1749781375' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='101' alt="" /> <div class='rss_chapo'><p>DAKAR, Senegal — Thousands filled a sandy plaza here Saturday to demonstrate against Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, who is trying to extend his time in office in what critics say is a violation of the country's Constitution.</p></div> <div class='rss_texte'><p>The attempt by the 85-year-old president has unleashed a wave of protests, some violent, in a poor West African nation that alone among its neighbors has a long tradition of relative democracy. There has never been a coup d'etat in this former French colony, and the speakers at Saturday's rally urged Mr. Wade to respect the country's record and to step down immediately.</p> <p>The opposition press and politicians here routinely accuse Mr. Wade — a remote, acerbic figure who spent a lifetime in opposition politics before his peaceful election in 2000 — of trying, as many of his peers in this part of the world have done, to stay in his sumptuous colonial-era presidential palace until his death.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/africa/24senegal.html?ref=africa" class="spip_out" rel="external"><i>Read more...</i></a></p> <p>Source: The New York Times</p> <p>Photo: Seneweb (flickr)</p></div>