With Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko still enjoying a political honeymoon Pastef has looked strong from the outset (AC Vol 65 No 7 Faye's victory shakes up the region)...
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If the election results hand President Faye an unambiguous mandate for the next four years the other big winner is his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko who pushed for the early election decision...
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Vol 65 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The current atmosphere favours politicians seeking to challenge France over its role in the West African economy such as Senegalese prime minister Ousmane Sonko...
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The prime minister Ousmane Sonko a master of populist street rhetoric is expected to front the campaign for the ruling Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) – which only had 23 of the 165 seats in the assembly with fellow members of the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance contributing a further 33...
Vol 65 No 19 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
But the military review comes as Paris struggles to reframe many other dimensions of its African engagement amid a climate of mistrust echoed in social media and radical politics – epitomised when new Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko shared a Dakar podium with veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in May (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...
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President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is hoping to cash in on his government's popularity and claim a parliamentary majority after announcing snap elections for 17 November in a bid to end a stand-off with parliament over his government's budget and the status of his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko (AC Vol 65 No 17 Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll)...
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Pugnacious PMAs the momentum that fuelled the March vote fades Faye's prime minister Ousmane Sonko has sought to generate fresh confrontational energy...
Prime minister Ousmane Sonko was even booed in Colobane a district of the capital when he visited the area after the authorities had cracked down on street vendors...
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Meanwhile Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko's remarks to Pastef Les Patriotes activists in June that the new government would ‘no longer allow the media to write whatever they want about people without any reliable sources in the name of so-called press freedom ' also raised concerns among free speech advocates...
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Kenyan activists are comparing their movement to the protests in Senegal that saw former President Macky Sall's party defeated in elections by Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko both in their forties...
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko hosting the veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Dakar launched a diatribe against France and the EU complaining that they failed to speak out against former President Macky Sall's crackdown on dissent (AC Vol 65 No 4 Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem)...