This diplomatic cold shower was reminiscent of Senegal's sudden demand for the closure of French military bases even as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye was lauding Macron for acknowledging that the French colonial army massacred Senegalese soldiers at Thiaroye in 1944 (AC Vol 65 No 25 Macron tilts to Anglophone Africa after Sahelian exits)...

As a top official in President Macky Sall's government he may not be assured of support by its successor under President Bassirou Diomaye Faye...

Having won power in December as an opposition challenger Mahama – like Senegal's Bassirou Diomaye Faye – is seen by the Sahel regimes as a friendlier face...

SenegalIn Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected last March in place of his legally barred patron Ousmane Sonko...

Elected in March Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has initiated an audit of all natural resources contracts while Côte d'Ivoire's Mines Minister Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly plans to rewrite legislation to boost state profits from the mining sector...

The Ecowas parliament had called for an extension of the timetable before ‘Sahel-exit' while Presidents Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and Faure Gnassingbé of Togo still hoped their mediation efforts could yield some results...

Days before Tinubu arrived in Paris Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye commended the ‘courage' of his counterpart Emmanuel Macron for acknowledging that colonial authorities massacred protesting African troops at Thiaroye in December 1944...

If President Bassirou Diomaye Faye hoped a relaxation of nomination rules for the 17 November parliamentary elections would see opposition to his ruling Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) party fragmented between an array of mostly lightweight challengers he has been disappointed (Dispatches 17/9/24 Diomaye Faye goes back to the polls to end parliamentary impasse)...