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Vol 66 No 24

Published 5th December 2025


Senegal

Faye and Sonko agree an uneasy truce

Debt pressures, IMF talks and partisan rivalries expose the fragility of a leadership once seen as unbreakable

After a public rift that shook their political brotherhood and threatened crucial negotiations with the IMF, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko have stepped back from open confrontation.

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