The arrest of mining executives in Mali ... 2024 Senegal's new prime minister Ousmane Sonko is a firebrand politician who rallied Senegalese youth to enable the election of his top lieutenant ...

Ousmane Sonko, the country’s prime minister who helped catapult Faye to victory, denounced attacks against supporters of PASTEF in Dakar and other cities. “May each patriot they have attacked ...

Like Equatorial Guinea’s Baltasar Ebang Engonga, many of Africa’s leading political figures have been caught up in sex ...

Both Faye and Sonko were released from prison less than two weeks before the vote following a political amnesty announced by outgoing President Sall. Their arrests had sparked months of protests ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Polls opened in Senegal on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is set to determine if the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms.

Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko must tackle slow economic growth ... with Sonko that led to dozens of deaths and hundreds of arrests. His last-minute delay to the 2024 presidential ...

Mozambique’s post-election unrest has turned deadly, with security forces accused of killing at least 10 children according ...

Senegal demands answers as the West African country commemorates a French colonial massacre For the first time, France’s Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French a massacre On ...