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Abdoulaye Wade

President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who served as the third president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974. Assuming office at 73, Wade was the oldest person to occupy the post.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Abdoulaye Wade” as president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2012, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Abdoulaye, Wade and President can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2012 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abdoulaye Wade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.