Vol 66 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The Ecowas parliament had called for an extension of the timetable before ‘Sahel-exit' while Presidents Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and Faure Gnassingbé of Togo still hoped their mediation efforts could yield some results...
Vol 65 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Days before Tinubu arrived in Paris Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye commended the ‘courage' of his counterpart Emmanuel Macron for acknowledging that colonial authorities massacred protesting African troops at Thiaroye in December 1944...
DISPATCHES
Vol 65 No 25 |
- CHAD
- FRANCE
Meanwhile Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said last week in an interview with French TV that it was inappropriate for French troops to maintain a presence in his country but did not say whether this amounted to a request for them to leave...
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If President Bassirou Diomaye Faye hoped a relaxation of nomination rules for the 17 November parliamentary elections would see opposition to his ruling Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) party fragmented between an array of mostly lightweight challengers he has been disappointed (Dispatches 17/9/24 Diomaye Faye goes back to the polls to end parliamentary impasse)...
DISPATCHES
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's decision to make the most of his honeymoon with the voters and call early parliamentary elections on 17 November has paid off (AC Vol 65 No 20 Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate)...
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For it was Sonko rather than his close ally President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who headed Pastef's parliamentary candidates list and fronted the campaign...
Vol 65 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Bassirou Diomaye Faye elected in March as Senegal's president on a tidal wave of popular support firmly advocates the CFA's replacement...
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Vol 65 No 21 |
- ECONOMY
- ECOWAS
Despite being elected on a platform of rolling back France's post-colonial influence including the CFA which is pegged to the euro Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has taken a more gradualist stance on the currency question (AC Vol 65 No 9 Will Senegal's President Faye lead West Africa out of France's monetary zone...
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Two months from now millions of Senegalese voters are due to return to the polling stations following the dissolution of the national assembly by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who is seeking a new parliamentary majority to take forward his ambitious legislative agenda...
Vol 65 No 19 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
And he postponed his visit to Senegal until after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's 20 June visit to France aware that the new administration in Dakar might want time to settle in...