Just weeks after being released from jail, Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become Senegal's youngest ever president following an extraordinary election victory. The meteoric rise of The 44-year ...
Voters handed Senegal’s president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...
The popular president has taken a different approach, tasked with warming relations with neighboring junta leaders ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, noting that it was “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty.
More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country were choosing 165 lawmakers in the National Assembly, where the party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye does not hold a majority.
Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal. Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on ...
Opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is leading the race in Senegal's presidential election, according to local media. Several of the 17 candidates have conceded to him, however official ...
At midnight, the crowd gathered to sing “Happy Birthday” to the new President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Faye, 44, who was released from jail just 10 days prior, won the first round of ...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye (L) is sworn in as Senegal's President at an exhibition center in the new town of Diamniadio, near the capital Dakar on April 2, 2024. Senegal inaugurated Bassirou Diomaye ...
Few had heard of him a year ago, and now he is set to become president. Bassirou Diomaye Faye's extraordinary rise caps a rollercoaster period in Senegalese politics that caught many off-guard.