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Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye

Date of Birth: 25 March 1980
Place of Birth: Ndiaganiao, Senegal


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Macron tilts to Anglophone Africa after Sahelian exits

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...


President Faye set to win in parliament as honeymoon endures

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)...


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Diomaye Faye gets his super majority

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's decision to make the most of his honeymoon with the voters and call early parliamentary elections on 17 November has paid off (AC Vol 65 No 20 Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate)...

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Ouattara ups the ante on the eco

Despite being elected on a platform of rolling back France's post-colonial influence including the CFA which is pegged to the euro Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has taken a more gradualist stance on the currency question (AC Vol 65 No 9 Will Senegal's President Faye lead West Africa out of France's monetary zone...

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Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate

Two months from now millions of Senegalese voters are due to return to the polling stations following the dissolution of the national assembly by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who is seeking a new parliamentary majority to take forward his ambitious legislative agenda...


President Macron plans military cuts

And he postponed his visit to Senegal until after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's 20 June visit to France aware that the new administration in Dakar might want time to settle in...


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Diomaye Faye goes back to the polls to end parliamentary impasse

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is hoping to cash in on his government's popularity and claim a parliamentary majority after announcing snap elections for 17 November in a bid to end a stand-off with parliament over his government's budget and the status of his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko (AC Vol 65 No 17 Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll)...

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