With the right governance, Senegal, with its longstanding political stability as a 51-year-old democracy and its strategic position bordering Mauritania, Mali, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau on Africa’s westernmost point, is ideally positioned to serve as the hub for natural-resource development in these countries – and in Burkina Faso, Gambia, and Niger as well.
Il reste encore l’espoir que les manifestations populaires du mois de juin ramèneront Wade à ses sens, et permettront aux Sénégalais de continuer de choisir leur gouvernement dans la transparence.