Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye is a Senegalese doctor and politician. [1]
She graduated from Cheikh Anta Diop University in 1991. [2]
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal, she served as Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health. [3]
In May 2022, she was appointed Minister of Health in the Fourth Sall government, replacing Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr who was sacked. [4]
She was nominated again to her post as Minister of Health on September 17, 2022 under the new cabinet formed by Prime Minister Amadou Bâ.
Mariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim.
Cheikh Anta Diop University, also known as the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop and has an enrollment of over 60,000.
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 3 June 2007. They had originally been planned to be held together with the presidential election on 25 February 2007, but were postponed. Fourteen parties or coalitions participated in the elections, but they were marked by a major opposition boycott. The ruling Sopi Coalition won 131 seats, including all 90 of the seats elected by majority voting.
Abdoulaye Bathily is a Senegalese politician and diplomat. Bathily, the long-time Secretary-General of the Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party (LD/MPT), served in the government of Senegal as Minister of the Environment from 1993 to 1998 and as Minister of Energy from 2000 to 2001. Later, he worked as a diplomat for the United Nations, and since 2014 he has been Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Central Africa.
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009. Her play Papa doit manger is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 legal drama Saint Omer alongside its director Alice Diop, and Amrita David. In September 2022 the film was selected as France's official selection for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Ousmane Alioune Ngom is a Senegalese politician. As a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), Ngom served as a minister in national unity governments from 1991 to 1992 and from 1995 to 1998. He split from the PDS to form his own party in 1998, but returned to the PDS in 2003. Under President Abdoulaye Wade, Ngom was a presidential adviser from 2003 to 2004, and from 2004 to 2012 he again served as a minister in the government, ultimately as Minister of State for the Interior from September 2010 to April 2012. Since 2012, he has served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of Senegal.
Awa Marie Coll-Seck is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and is on the board of directors of several notable global health organizations. She is an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from 2009 to 2012. He was Minister of the Civil Service and Labour in 2005, Director of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic from 2005 to 2007, and Minister of State for the Maritime Economy from 2007 to 2009. A lawyer by profession, Ndiaye was a long-time member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS). He is also Mayor of Guinguinéo.
Joof or Diouf is a surname that is typically Serer.
Abdoul Mbaye is a Senegalese banker and politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from April 2012 until September 2013. He is a technocrat who was appointed prime minister by President Macky Sall following the latter's win in the 2012 presidential election.
Mbaye Ndiaye is a Senegalese politician who was Minister of the Interior from 4 April 2012 to 29 October 2012, then Minister of State without Portfolio.
Marie-Louise Correa is a Senegalese politician, a doctor and former minister of the Senegalese government, who was elected in July 2002 as president of the World Scout Committee following the 36th World Scout Conference in Thessaloníki, Greece, from 2002 to 2005. She had served as chair of the Africa Scout Region until 1999.
Thérèse King was a Senegalese politician. She was the Minister of Public Health from April 5th, 1988 to March 27th, 1990 under the presidency of Abdou Diouf. She was one of the first women government ministers in Senegal, and the second female Minister of Public Health after Marie Sarr Mbodj.
Musa Ngum was a singer and songwriter who was very popular in Senegal and Gambia. He was one of the pioneers of mbalax music, and "helped to define the mbalax style of popular music in the Senegambia" and "had a strong influence on Youssou N'Dour and other mbalax pioneers". He was "something of a cult icon back in the Senegambia region, and a pioneer of the mbalax fusion style". The mbalax, which originated from the Serer religious and ultra–conservative njuup music tradition sang during Ndut rites by circumcised boys was the foundation of Ngum's music career. He mastered many of the njuup classics and built a name for himself whilst at the same time developing his voice.
Events in the year 2020 in Senegal.
Diarra Sylla, better known as Diarra Sylla or simply Diarra, is a French-Senegalese singer, dancer, actress, compositor and model. She was part of the global pop group Now United, representing Senegal, and left the group in 2020 to pursue her solo career.
Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr is a Senegalese politician.
Events in the year 2022 in Senegal.
The Fourth Sall government has governed Senegal since 1 November 2020. It is the fourth government formed by Macky Sall.