26 November 2009 - 13H56  

Iranian president in Dakar on last leg of tour
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Ahmadinejad arrived in Dakar on a five-nation tour that has also seen him visit Latin America.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Ahmadinejad arrived in Dakar on a five-nation tour that has also seen him visit Latin America.

AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Dakar on Thursday, the second African capital on a five-nation tour that has also seen him visit Latin America.

Ahmadinejad was welcomed at the airport by his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade.

The Iranian leader was due to leave for Tehran in the afternoon after a visit lasting several hours, a source at the Iranian embassy said, without providing details of the president's programme.

Isolated from the international community Ahmadinejad has been trying to get support from African and Latin American allies, visiting Gambia, Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela.

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