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Senegal

Ousmane Sonko

Date of Birth: 15 July 1974
Place of Birth: Thiès


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Diomaye Faye gets his super majority

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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Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate

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...


President Macron plans military cuts

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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Diomaye Faye goes back to the polls to end parliamentary impasse

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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Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll

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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Faye faces criticism on media freedom

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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