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SENEGAL - SEVEN BILLION OFF THE BOOKS

By Aissatou Mbengue · 4 parts · 13 h 9 min · English

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Senegal has never had a coup, and three times its voters have removed a president. This is what happened to public money while that reputation held: a president's cash gift to the IMF's departing man and, sixteen years later, the IMF's discovery of some seven billion dollars of debt off the books; a president's son convicted of illicit enrichment, then pardoned; oil blocks awarded to a company not yet formed; children forced to beg; a dictator's unpaid victims; and two accountings in which each government prosecuted the last. Covers Abdoulaye Wade and the IMF, Karim Wade and the special court, Aliou Sall and Petro-Tim, Lamine Diack and the IAAF, Lat Diop and the national lottery, Hissène Habré and the Extraordinary African Chambers, and Macky Sall and the audit court.

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  1. Part 01

    2:47:36

  2. Part 02

    3:47:49

  3. Part 03

    3:12:24

  4. Part 04

    3:20:58

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