| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | Senegal |
| Website | www.walf-groupe.com (in French) |
WalFadjri is an independent daily newspaper published in Senegal. It is a French newspaper. [1] It was owned by Sidy Lamine Niasse. [2]
The flag of Senegal is a tricolour consisting of three vertical green, yellow and red bands charged with a five-pointed green star at the centre. Adopted in 1960 to replace the flag of the Mali Federation, it has been the flag of the Republic of Senegal since the country gained independence that year. The present and previous flags were inspired by French Tricolour, which flew over Senegal until 1960.
Saint Louis or Saint-Louis, known to locals as Ndar, is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially estimated at 258,592 in 2021. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until 1902 and French West Africa from 1895 until 1902, when the capital was moved to Dakar. From 1920 to 1957, it also served as the capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania.
Moustapha Niasse is a Senegalese politician and diplomat who has been President of the National Assembly since 2012. He served in the government of Senegal as Foreign Minister of Senegal from 1978 to 1984 and again from 1993 to 1998. He was Prime Minister of Senegal for a few weeks in 1983, and he held that position again from 2000 to 2001.
The Alliance of the Forces of Progress is a social-democratic political party in Senegal.
Amadou Lamine-Guèye was a Senegalese politician who became leader of the Parti Sénégalais de l'Action Socialiste. In 1945 he and his associate, Léopold Sédar Senghor, were elected to represent Senegal in the French National Assembly. Gueye was also elected to the French Senate in 1958.
Diéné Diawara is a Malian women's basketball player with Limoges ABC of the French Ligue Féminine de Basketball. Diawara also competes for the Mali women's national basketball team. At the FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007 in Senegal, she helped her squad win the tournament, qualifying it for Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Diawara was also the top rebounder of the tournament. She is the sister of Lamine Diawara and Nare Diawara.
Shaykh Hassan Cisse (1945-2008) was the preeminent spokesmen of the Tariqa Tijaniyya in recent times. He was an accomplished Islamic scholar, emerging from a long and vibrant legacy of Islamic learning in West Africa. The grandson and spiritual heir of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, he was designated by Shaykh Ibrahim as Imam of the Jama’at Nasr al-Ilm, the followers of Shaykh Ibrahim who are historically the largest single Muslim movement in twentieth-century West Africa.
Lamine N'Diaye is a Senegalese football coach and former player who is the manager of Guinean club Horoya AC.
Lamine Gassama is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a right back for Spanish club Sabadell and the Senegal national team.
Ludovic Lamine Sané is a French-born Senegalese international footballer who most recently played for FC Utrecht in the Eredivisie. He is primarily a centre-back but has also been used as holding midfielder.
Sidimane "Sidy" Sagna is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Moldovan club Sfântul Gheorghe.
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 1 July 2012. The result was a victory for the United in Hope coalition supporting newly elected President Macky Sall, which won 119 of the 150 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout in the election was just 37%.
El Hadji Baye Oumar Niasse is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for League One club Burton Albion.
Sidy Sarr is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 2 club Nîmes and the Senegal national team.
Youba Sambou is a Senegalese politician from Casamance who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of the Armed Forces from 2000 to 2002. He also served as Mayor of Bignona and was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2007.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, nicknamed "Mathaira," was a Senegalese politician and economist who served as a government minister several times during Abdou Diouf's presidency. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS) and later of the Alliance of the Forces of Progress (AFP).
Serigne Sidi Moukhtar Mbacké was a Senegalese religious leader. He served as the Caliph of the Mouride movement, a large Sufi order based in Senegal, from 1 July 2010 until his death on 9 January 2018.
Sidy Lamine Niasse was a Senegalese lawyer, teacher, journalist, and religious guide. He was the founder and CEO of the Senegalese press group WalFadjri.
The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety is the current aviation accident agency in Senegal, a part of the Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport.
Amadou Lamine Sall, born on March 26, 1951 in Kaolack, Senegal, is one of the major poets of contemporary French-speaking Africa. Leopold Senghor said of him that he was the most talented poet of his generation. He is the recipient of the 2018 edition of the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry.
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