Vol 67 No 14 |
- FOOTBALL
- AFRICA
The remarks by Senegal's former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko that – regardless of the France vs Senegal group-stages result – ‘it is Africa that will have beaten Africa' is just one of several similar observations by politicians sports analysts and disgruntled representatives of Europe's far-right on the expanding presence of Africa diaspora and players with Africa heritage in the teams of former colonial powers...
A brief televised decree late on 22 May ended Ousmane Sonko's premiership and dissolved the government – breaking the pact that had carried Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the presidency two years earlier...
True to his sovereigntist philosophy Ousmane Sonko argued that Senegal could meet its obligations from domestic resources without turning to external creditors or accepting their conditions...
DISPATCHES
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko's feud over the future of their Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité party is set to be resolved at the party's congress in June...
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Vol 67 No 9 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko spent years as Sall's fiercest political opponent jailed on what his supporters describe as fabricated charges and declared ineligible to contest the presidency (AC Vol 65 No 24 PROFILE: Ousmane Sonko – Premier League)...
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko whose relations with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye are fraying badly categorically rules out a formal restructuring and joining the G20 Common Framework on debt notorious for its bureaucratic and time-consuming processes in Ghana and Zambia...
As Beijing has started to hold back vital funding Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko faces intensifying pressure to reach an accommodation with the IMF...
Paris has remained discreet about its vigorous efforts to press the case for an international debt rescue for Senegal – not least because Dakar's popular Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is one of the region's loudest critics of French policy...
DISPATCHES
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has threatened to take his Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) party out of government as the power struggle between himself and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye intensifies...
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This adds to pressure on President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to agree a recovery programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
Activists warn that this crisis triggered by the Macky Sall government's concealing of US$7 billion of debts is wrong-footing the Bassirou Diomaye Faye-Ousmane Sonko government...
DISPATCHES
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has repeatedly insisted that his government would not seek to restructure its debts and would be able to fund its repayments...
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