A Senegalese woman who set herself alight outside Rome's city hall on December 7 after failing in a bid to see visiting President Abdoulaye Wade has died of her burns, the Senegalese embassy said Monday.

Penda Kebe, 39, had been taken to hospital with serious burns on over 70 percent of her body after police extinguished the blaze, the ANSA news agency reported at the time.

She died on Sunday evening, ANSA said.

Kebe, described as an active member of Wade's Senegalese Democratic Party and the daughter of a cousin of the president, lived in the northern city of Brescia, ANSA said.

She went to the Rome hotel where Wade was staying and asked to see him but was turned away. She then went to the city hall, where the president was to have a private meeting with representatives of Senegal's 70,000-strong community in Italy.

Police said Kebe had soaked her clothing in fuel before igniting it with a cigarette lighter.The reasons for Kebe's action were not known.