One thing I learnt from the Presentation was around the President of Senegal being a Geologist.
Very interesting, also Cath knows her stuff - sadly I have looped the Audio and am going through it again.
Macky Sall, (born December 11, 1961, Fatick, Senegal), Senegalese geologist and politician who served as prime minister (2004–07) and as president (2012– ) ofSenegal.
Sall was raised in a family of modest means in the town of Fatick in western Senegal. He studied geological engineering and geophysics at University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (graduated 1988) and the French Institute of Petroleum outside Paris. In 2000 he became a special adviser on energy and mines to Senegalese Pres. Abdoulaye Wade, and the following year he became minister of mines, energy, and water. In 2002 he also took on the position of mayor of his hometown. Sall continued to pick up government portfolios, briefly taking on infrastructure and transportation in addition to his other duties in 2002 and then becoming a minister of state that same year. He exchanged his energy position for the interior and local government portfolio in 2003. In 2004 he was appointed deputy secretary-general of Wade’s Senegalese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Sénégalais; PDS) and also prime minister—the fourth for Wade in as many years—a position he held until 2007.
Sall resigned as prime minister in June 2007, and soon afterward he was elected president ... (200 of 527 words)
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