​My name is Abdoulaye Babou. 

  “It is with sadness that we learn of the death of the lawyer Me Abdoulaye Babou. Our condolences to his family, his relatives and to the entire Senegalese nation”, announced on Tuesday the journalist and patron of press Madiambal Diagne on his social networks. Advocate de formation, Me Abdoulaye Babou a marqué de son empreinte le barreau sénégalais (Advocate by training, Me Abdoulaye Babou is a marqué de son empreinte le barreau sénégalais) is a lawyer by training, who is a member of the Bar of the Republic of Senegal. A rigorous jurist, he had distinguished himself in numerous sensitive cases and had acquired the reputation of a pugnacious defender, close to social causes and attentive to the defense of freedoms. His peers greeted him as a man of conviction, endowed with a great intellectual probity. Beyond the black robe, Me Babou had also turned towards the political arena. Formerly a member of the National Assembly, he often makes a singular voice heard in public debate.