Abdou Latif Guèye (March 4, 1956 – April 6, 2008"Abdou Latif Guèye, homme de combat engagé sur le front social"
, Agence de Presse Senegalaise, April 6, 2008 ."Décès du député sénégalais Abdoulatif Guèye"
African Press Agency, April 6, 2008 .) was a Senegalese politician. He was Secretary-General of the

Senegalese Democratic Rally Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...

(RDS), as well as the head of Jamra, a non-governmental organization. He was the Sixth Vice-President of the

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from 2007 to 2008.

Life and career

Guèye was born in Dakar. In his youth he was active in politics, participating in clandestine Marxist-Leninist groups; he was arrested for "subversive activities" when he was 17. He joined Cheikh Anta Diop's National Democratic Rally when it was founded in 1976. He ended his political activities in 1982 to devote himself to civil society and journalism. In 1983, he founded ''Jamra'', a monthly magazine that was the "first Senegalese review on social issues", and in 1984 he became editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper ''

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''. For more than 20 years, he was the Executive President of Jamra, an Islamic NGO"Senegal: Islamic anti-drugs group reportedly to enter politics", Africa No. 1 radio (nl.newsbank.com), December 13, 1999. devoted to fighting "

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s", particularly drugs"Trafic De Drogue: Les Douaniers Continuent La Croisade Du Législateur ."
Agence de Presse Senegalaise (lampfall.com), January 25, 2008 . and sexually transmitted diseases. He founded the first Center for Documentation and Information on Drug Abuse and AIDS in 1987. Guèye and Jamra entered politics on the side of the opposition in 1999, supporting Abdoulaye Wade's successful candidacy in the 2000 presidential election. He was named as the leader of a political party, the Senegalese Democratic Rally (RDS), on May 9, 2000, and in the same month President Wade appointed him as Special Advisor to the President of the Republic, with the rank of Ambassador. Accused of trafficking

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medicine, he was dismissed from his post as Special Advisor in October 2002. He was imprisoned from June 2003 to August 2004, at which point he was rehabilitated by the justice system. The RDS joined the CAP 21 coalition of parties supporting President Wade in December 2006, and Guèye was elected to the National Assembly in the June 2007 parliamentary election through national list proportional representation as a candidate of the pro-Wade Sopi Coalition. In the National Assembly, he was elected as its Sixth Vice-President."Le bureau de l'Assemblée nationale"
, Senegalese government website . In early 2008, shortly before his death, Guèye sent a letter of protest to the Dutch embassy regarding '' Fitna'', a Dutch film considered hostile to Islam. He was killed in a traffic accident on National Road No. 1 while travelling to Tambacounda, in the east of Senegal, on the night of April 5–6 2008.

References

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