Mamado Bamba Ndiaye (4 April 1949 – 3 July 2020) was a Senegalese journalist, islamologist, and politician. He served as Minister of Religious Affairs under the presidency of

Abdoulaye Wade Abdoulaye Wade (born 29 May 1926)
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from 2000 to 2012. He supported Malick Gakou as Parti Grand leader in 2012, and

Macky Sall Macky Sall (, wo, Maki Sàll, fuc, 𞤃𞤢𞤳𞤭 𞤅𞤢𞤤‎, italic=no, Maki Sal; born 11 December 1961) is a Senegalese politician who has been President of Senegal since April 2012. He was re-elected President in the first round voti ...

for President of Senegal in 2019. Ndiaye was also director of the daily newspaper ''Le Messager''. Ndiaye died on 3 July 2020, in

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...

, at the age of 71 from COVID-19.

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