Senegal: the mediator of the Republic Alioune Badara Cissé is dead
Alioune Badara Cissé stands on the tarmac at Dakar airport, May 3, 2012. © AFP - SEYLLOU
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In Senegal, the political class is in mourning after the death of the mediator of the Republic, Alioune Badara Cissé.
He died on Saturday August 28 in Dakar, at the age of 63.
A traveling companion and head of diplomacy to President Macky Sall, he co-founded with him the Alliance for the Republic, the party of the Head of State.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Théa Ollivier
Alioune Badara Cissé's last highly noticed public appearance was on March 7, 2021, when riots shook the country.
Mediator of the Republic, he called on President Macky Sall to speak,
to listen to Senegalese youth
and warned against an escalation of violence.
Born in 1958, this politician from Saint-Louis first had several responsibilities under the presidency of Abdoulaye Wade.
Among the first traveling companions of Macky Sall, he was his chief of staff when the latter was Prime Minister.
He thus accompanied him in the break with Abdoulaye Wade to create the Alliance for the Republic (APR).
Alioune Badara Cissé actively participated in the victory in 2012 of the current president.
But after seven months at the head of the foreign ministry, he was dismissed.
“He
was more a man of rights than a politician.
He did not hesitate to tell the truth and was straightforward
, ”says Ogo Seck, professor at the University of Saint-Louis, who explains this break between the two men.
Alioune Badara Cissé was appointed mediator of the Republic in 2015. And he could have gone to the end of his mandate, which ended on August 5.
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