Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...

SenegalIn Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected last March in place of his legally barred patron Ousmane Sonko...

Senegal's prime minister Ousmane Sonko took to X to furiously declare that it was not up to France alone to determine how many had died...

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)...

A year ago Ousmane Sonko was in jail his hopes of standing in Senegal's 2024 presidential poll clearly doomed...

The current atmosphere favours politicians seeking to challenge France over its role in the West African economy such as Senegalese prime minister Ousmane Sonko...

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...

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)...