Kenyan President William Ruto has finally congratulated the Senegalese President, joining African and world leaders in the bid to strengthen relations...
The winner will be tasked with steering Senegal, viewed as a beacon of democracy in coup-hit West Africa, out of its recent troubles and managing reve...
Kagame, 66, has been President since 2000 although he has effectively been in control since his rebel force marched into Kigali in 1994 to end a genoc...
The amnesty is part of President Macky Sall's response to turmoil sparked by his last-minute postponement of the presidential election, originally sch...
Several speakers representing some of the election candidates addressed the crowd, including former prime minister Aminata Toure, a member of the "Bas...
Sall's two-day "national dialogue" aimed at setting a date for the delayed election also advocated the head of state remain in office beyond the end o...
Even before the West African nation had fully emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, it was rocked by violent riots in March 2021 triggered by the arrest...
Elymane Haby Kane, one of the organisers of the march, told AFP he had received an official letter from local authorities in the capital Dakar that th...
ECOWAS' extraordinary session follows Senegal President Macky Sall's sudden decision to delay elections, just a week after Burkina Faso, Mali and Nige...
Opposition party supporters and police clashed in Dakar after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election se...
Sall cited a dispute between the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court over the rejection of candidates.
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