DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was named as the prime minister in the new government on Tuesday, hours after his key ally was sworn in as president. Sonko, 49, ...

Le gouvernement sénégalais, sous l'impulsion du Premier ministre Ousmane Sonko, a formellement mis fin à une pratique jugée ...

Le Premier ministre Ousmane Sonko a prononcé, ce mardi, le discours de clôture du Forum d’investissement « FII Sénégal », un ...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko spoke for hours in parliament on Friday, laying out the new government's plans barely a month after the decisive parliamentary election victory cementing the ...

Senegal unveiled Thursday a long-awaited report on the 1944 Thiaroye massacre, when French colonial troops killed African ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said it remained engaged with Senegal as the West African country's prime minister promised a recovery plan to clean up billions in debts that ...

Governing in a duo with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Ousmane Sonko can finally roll out the policies he honed during years in opposition. How times have changed. In February 2021, Ousmane Sonko ...

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and ...

In his first remarks following his appointment, Sonko pledged full support to President Faye. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and Ousmane Sonko, a prominent and controversial political ...

The assurances given by the Senegalese president have failed to ease tensions at the top of the country. Bassirou Diomaye Faye may have felt that there was no problem with his prime minister, but ...

Nine people were killed in clashes in Senegal on Thursday, after protests erupted following the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Interior Minister Antoine Diome said on national ...

On March 24, 2024, Bassirou Diomaye Faye became the youngest elected president in the history of Senegal at just 44 years of age. Faye subsequently entered office on his birthday on March 25. This ...