1963 Senegalese general election information

General elections were held in Senegal on 1 December 1963. It was the first time the president had been directly elected. However, incumbent Léopold Sédar...

the Socialist Party (formerly the Senegalese Progressive Union) was challenged by Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party, but won with 82%...

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of party mergers, the country had become a one-party state, with the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) as the sole legal party, As a result, its leader...

Sédar Senghor. He stood as an opposition candidate in the 1963 Senegalese general election. During the campaign, he was one of the main organisers of...

tendencies" (Momsarew, April 1964). In the December 1, 1963 elections PAI joined the Senegalese Democracy and Unity bloc. Whereas many young cadres of...

Secretary-General of the Government; in June 1961, he became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Defense. In 1961 he joined the Senegalese Progressive...

election in 1983 against Diouf, but lost. Senghor moved to France, where he died at the age of 95. In the 1980s, Boubacar Lam discovered Senegalese oral...

Senegal, since the country gained independence from France in 1960. The Senegalese Constitution provides the following oath for the president which must...

The Senegalese Football Federation (French: Fédération Sénégalaise de Football; FSF) is the governing body of football in Senegal. It is based in the capital...

the Senegalese Progressive Union was elected unopposed, and his party won all 80 seats with 94.2% of the vote. In the Venezuelan presidential election, Raúl...

maintained his own following. There was a general lull in fighting during 2020. However, an ally of Senegalese President Macky Sall, Umaro Sissoco Embaló...

Senegal has been a member state of the African Union since 1963. The present-day Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is currently serving as the African...

Canjambari, Guinea-Bissau, 1974 Armed escort carries a wounded person to the Senegalese border, Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974 After achieving independence, the PAIGC...

chief General Ousman Badjie meanwhile pledged allegiance to Barrow and stated that the Gambian Army would not fight ECOWAS. Barrow and a Senegalese official...

by the end of the coup attempt. Following the coup attempt, Jawara and Senegalese President Abdou Diouf announced the creation of the Senegambia Confederation...

manager 1976 – Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower 1977 – Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 – Keigo Hayashi, Japanese...

context of widespread protests over the conduct of the 2023 Gabonese general election, and led to the establishment of a presidential republic under a military...

and his khâgne at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he befriended the future Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, Pompidou attended the École...

president of the Women of the Senegalese Progressive Union in 1964. That same year, she became the deputy secretary-general of the Pan-African Women. Her...

deployed 400 troops to The Gambia on 31 July. By 6 August, some 2,700 Senegalese troops had been deployed, defeating the rebel force. Between 500 and 800...

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Keïta and the French Sudanese politicians. On 19 August, with reports of Senegalese peasants arming in Dakar, Keïta dismissed Dia as the defense minister...

Mushohwe, 69, Zimbabwean politician, senator (2008–2018). Kéné Ndoye, 44, Senegalese Olympic track and field athlete (2000, 2004). Deirdre Purcell, 77, Irish...