Senegal's new government A win for Wade's men and women

摘要

Having won a bigger parliamentary majority on April 29th than he dared imagine, Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal's president and a member of the influential Mourides brotherhood, took his newly-elected mps to the sacred city of Touba to give thanks to his spiritual leader, Khalif Serigne Saliou Mbacke. The khalif's preelection prayers, if not the only factor in the victory, were much appreciated.