Communiqué: Support for the Mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall
09.03.2017
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Metropolis, as well as the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) are closely following events in Senegal surrounding the detention of the Mayor of Dakar and President of the Africa section of UCLG, Mr. Khalifa Sall.
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Metropolis, as well as the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) are closely following events in Senegal surrounding the detention of the Mayor of Dakar and President of the Africa section of UCLG, Mr. Khalifa Sall.
UCLG, Metropolis and the AIMF express their concern at this worrisome situation and call on the competent Senegalese authorities to support the rule of law as well as the fundamental principles of democracy, so dear to Senegal and to all our members.
We also hope that the Mayor of Dakar, along with the other representatives of the local authorities, will be able to exercise all his rights and assume fully and without hindrance his functions on the basis of the legitimate mandate entrusted to him by the people of Dakar.
UCLG President, Parks Tau
Metropolis President, Denis Coderre
AIMF President, Anne Hidalgo
- See the joint statement of UCLG, Metropolis and AIMF here
- See the statement of the International Association of Francophone Mayors: Réaction du bureau de l’aimf suite à l’arrestation de Khalifa A. Sall, maire de Dakar
- See the statement of CCRE-CEMR: Le CCRE demande des clarifications suite à l’arrestation du maire de Dakar
- See the statement of UCLG Africa: Communiqué : Soutien au Maire de Dakar, Khalifa Sall
- Les maires francophones expriment leur solidarité envers Khalifa Sall (available in French)
- AIMF supports the Mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall (available in French)
- See the video message of Denis Coderre, President of Metropolis and Mayor of Montreal (available in French)
- See: “World mayors concerned about jailing of Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall” by Citiscope