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"The Stade du Sénégal-Abdoulaye Wade , aka Diamniadio Olympic Stadium, is a stadium located in Diamniadio near Dakar in Senegal .
Scheduled to host the 2026 Youth Olympics , it has a capacity of 50,000.
History
Context
During the inauguration of the Dakar Arena , theAugust 8, 2018, President Macky Sall announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art football stadium with a capacity of 50,000 seats . This stadium is presented as one of the main facilities to host the 2026 Youth Olympic Games , even though it was not included in Senegal's Candidature File .
Building
The foundation stone of the building was laid onFebruary 20, 2020, in the presence of President Macky Sall .
The works, estimated at 18 months, are being carried out for an amount of 150 billion FCFA by the Turkish company Summa, which has already built the Dakar Arena . InJanuary 2020, the State of Senegal obtains financing of 238 million euros (155 billion FCFA) from the Standard Chartered Bank to finance the operation .
Inauguration
The stadium was inaugurated on February 22, 2022, in the presence of President Macky Sall , foreign heads of state including Adama Barrow , Umaro Sissoco Embaló , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Paul Kagame , Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Georges Weah , and leaders of the FIFA and CAF Gianni Infantino and Patrice Motsepe . A gala match is organized between former Senegalese internationals ( Diouf , Fadiga , Diatta ) and former African glories ( Drogba ,Eto'o , Okocha , Touré , etc.) .
A few days before the inauguration, it was announced that the stadium would bear the name of Abdoulaye Wade , former president of Senegal .
Environment and access
The stadium is located in Diamniadio on the other side of the Dakar-Arena. It is accessible by the A1 motorway and is served by the Dakar TER ."
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PERSON
"Abdoulaye Wade About this sound pronunciation (Kébémer; May 29, 1926) is a Senegalese politician, was the third president of Senegal. He is the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party, a liberal party member of the Liberal International. Before coming to government, he led the opposition for decades, and was sometimes exiled and imprisoned in Besançon for his political activities. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet.
Wade ran for president for the first time in February 1978 against Senegal's first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, winning 17.38% of the vote, but not enough to overtake Senghor. Consequently, he ran for president in the 1983, 1988, and 1993 elections, always coming second to Senghor's successor, Abdou Diouf. In February 2000, he again came second with 31%, but Diouf did not get a majority, so a runoff was held on March 19. Abdoulaye Wade won with 58.49% of the vote and was sworn in as president on April 1, 2000. He was re-elected in the February 25, 2007 presidential election with a 55.86% victory in the first round.
In the 2012 elections he won the first round victory with 35% of the vote, while his former ally and opposition leader Macky Sall obtained 24%. In the second round held on March 24 Sall was favored with 65% while Wade had only 35%. Sall took office on April 2."
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