Questions over how President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's government intends to bring its foreign debt-service burden down to an affordable level still hang over the IMF executive board's decision on whether to approve a proposed US$2...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye took on the Ecowas chairmanship on 19 July which could ease dialogue with the AES...

A brief televised decree late on 22 May ended Ousmane Sonko's premiership and dissolved the government – breaking the pact that had carried Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the presidency two years earlier...

And it is uncertain whether President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who shares Sonko's pan-Africanist sovereignty instincts would accept such conditions...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has no intention of backing his predecessor...

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...

The open rift between the fiery Sonko and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye – former allies who are now leading rival political formations – is snagging the government's negotiations over an adjustment programme that the creditors will back...

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...