Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko whose relations with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye are fraying badly categorically rules out a formal restructuring and joining the G20 Common Framework on debt notorious for its bureaucratic and time-consuming processes in Ghana and Zambia...

As Beijing has started to hold back vital funding Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko faces intensifying pressure to reach an accommodation with the IMF...

Paris has remained discreet about its vigorous efforts to press the case for an international debt rescue for Senegal – not least because Dakar's popular Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is one of the region's loudest critics of French policy...

This adds to pressure on President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to agree a recovery programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Activists warn that this crisis triggered by the Macky Sall government's concealing of US$7 billion of debts is wrong-footing the Bassirou Diomaye Faye-Ousmane Sonko government...

This has to be the year of delivery for President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko as their administration moves into midterm the electoral triumphs of 2024 fading in the rear-view mirror and the municipal polls of 2027 edging over the horizon (AC Vol 65 No 7 Faye's victory shakes up the region & Vol 65 No 24 President Faye set to win in parliament as honeymoon endures)...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan who was present in Bissau during the coup suspect that Embaló was involved in some kind of subterfuge...

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...

Faye contested the 2024 presidential election in place of Sonko – disqualified by a conviction for defaming a minister (AC Vol 64 No 12 Street hits back for Sonko Vol 65 No 1 Sonko's long walk to the ballot box Vol 65 No 3 A crowded field & Vol 65 No 24 Profile: Ousmane Sonko – Premier League)...

NAVIGATING THE DEBT CRISIS Painful choices lie ahead for Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye as they try to finalise a deal with the International Monetary Fund on a new programme after the discovery of US$7 billion in hidden debt incurred under former President Macky Sall between 2019 and 2024...