The President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal, Mamadou Badio Camara, died this Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Dakar, PressAfriK has learned.

Born in 1952 in Dakar, Mamadou Badio Camara devoted nearly five decades to the Senegalese justice system. After obtaining his baccalaureate in 1971 from the Lamine Guèye High School, he pursued law studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where he earned a degree in private law, specializing in judicial matters, in 1975. He then enrolled at the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), from which he graduated as a magistrate in 1977.
He began his career as a deputy prosecutor in Dakar, before successively serving as prosecutor in Ziguinchor and Kaolack in the 1980s. Promoted to first deputy prosecutor in Dakar, he then returned to Kaolack as public prosecutor. His career has been punctuated by several training sessions abroad, notably in France, Canada, the United States, and Zimbabwe, on topics ranging from human rights to judicial management and electoral oversight.
Over the years, he rose through the ranks of the Senegalese judiciary. He was appointed President of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court, combining this role with that of Secretary General of the institution. He has also been a professor at ENAM (National School of Management) and the Judicial Training Center (CFJ), as well as a lecturer at police and gendarmerie academies.
Internationally recognized, he has represented Senegal in several training, mediation, and expert missions, notably in Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, and Haiti, under the auspices of the United Nations or the OIF. From 2011 until his appointment to the Constitutional Council, he was a member of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances. On September 5, 2022, Mr. Mamadou Badio CAMARA, member of the Constitutional Council of Senegal since 2021, was appointed by presidential decree as President of this institution to replace Mr. Papa Oumar SAKHO, who had reached the end of his term.