The youngish government of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye 45 and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko 50 is at a crossroads seven months after winning a super-majority in the parliament...
Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...
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The peace deal is a particular boon for Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko who was mayor of Ziguinchor the main city in Casamance before his friend and protégé Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected President last year...
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SenegalIn Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected last March in place of his legally barred patron Ousmane Sonko...
Vol 65 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Senegal's prime minister Ousmane Sonko took to X to furiously declare that it was not up to France alone to determine how many had died...
With Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko still enjoying a political honeymoon Pastef has looked strong from the outset (AC Vol 65 No 7 Faye's victory shakes up the region)...
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If the election results hand President Faye an unambiguous mandate for the next four years the other big winner is his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko who pushed for the early election decision...
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A year ago Ousmane Sonko was in jail his hopes of standing in Senegal's 2024 presidential poll clearly doomed...
Vol 65 No 23 |
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- AFRICA
The current atmosphere favours politicians seeking to challenge France over its role in the West African economy such as Senegalese prime minister Ousmane Sonko...
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The prime minister Ousmane Sonko a master of populist street rhetoric is expected to front the campaign for the ruling Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) – which only had 23 of the 165 seats in the assembly with fellow members of the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance contributing a further 33...