Voters handed Senegal's president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has affirmed he will remain head of government rather than preside over parliament, ...

In late November, both Senegal and Chad – independently of one another – moved to profoundly alter their longstanding ...

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 ...

Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye says Senegal 'does not accept the presence of military bases in a sovereign country'.

Months after Bassirou Diomaye Faye won Senegal's March 2024 presidential election, voters in the West African nation cast ...

The Senegalese government has claimed victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections with most of the votes already counted. It ...

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 ...

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.