Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is "making progress" in a mediation mission with junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, after the trio announced their departure from regional ...
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is 'making progress' in a mediation mission with junta-led Burkina Faso ...
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced in January they were leaving ECOWAS which they accused of being subservient to France.
Voters handed Senegal’s president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.
The popular president has taken a different approach, tasked with warming relations with neighboring junta leaders ...
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...