Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade: I Said It. Now I Unsay It.

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Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade was defeated yesterday in a dramatic runoff vote, which, on Saturday night, you’d have been hard-pressed to find any Senegalese not so nervous about the outcome that they’d been willing to predict it […]

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