Former president of senegal

Macky sall biography

Sall established the Serve Senegal Foundation during her tenure as first lady and heads the charity's board of directors. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.

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Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikidata item. First Lady of Senegal from to In , Janet expressed her ambition to join active politics and won a parliamentary seat in the general elections. She was re-elected in , but did not seek re-election in Prior to taking up her role as First Lady, Zinash lived with her three daughters, in the United States.

Margaret is liked by many Kenyans for her simplicity in regard to her dressing, nature and manner.

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While the position of first lady is not legally or constitutionally provided for in many countries, many presidencies cater for the Office of the First Lady, through which the holder is facilitated to implement projects towards social causes, and often influence policy. Foreign relations. Other countries. History [ edit ].

First ladies of Senegal [ edit ]. See also [ edit ].

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References [ edit ]. The Africa Report. Archived from the original on 27 December Retrieved 26 December Voice of America. Archived from the original on 11 July Archived from the original on 25 March However, she remained out of the day-to-day planning of her husband's Alliance for the Republic political party.

Still, some publications close to President Wade sought to portray her as overly ambitious and pious during the campaign. Macky Sall defeated President Wade in a runoff held on March 25, Sall became the fourth First Lady of Senegal on April 2, Sall is Senegal's first black first lady, first Muslim first lady, as well as the first fully Senegalese first lady to be born and raised in the country.

She was nicknamed a "real Senegalese lady" by many Senegalese women.