Senegal : Presidential candidates court docket high echelons of Mouride brotherhood

Presidential candidate Karim Wade, in his first speech to be filmed in over eight years, paid tribute to the Mouride brotherhood’s caliph, Serigne Mountakha Bassirou Mbacké, and to his predecessor, Serigne Sidy Mokhtar Mbacké, who died in 2018.The ten-minute speech on 2 January was purported to mark the comeback on the Senegalese political scene of the ex-minister and son of former president Abdoulaye Wade. In it he expressed remorse at