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...
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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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Dakar political life is slowing down in August giving President Bassirou Diomaye Faye some time to weigh up whether to dissolve the National Assembly in September and call early legislative elections in search of a parliamentary majority...
Other governments in the region and diplomatic partners more generally seem willing to brush aside Sonko's more provocative rhetoric because they are reassured by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's non-confrontational tone...
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President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye faces an early test of his credentials in a damaging row over press freedom...
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The EU is particularly keen to build strong relations with Senegal's new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye...
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Senegal's new President Bassirou Faye elected in May on an anti-establishment ticket has been appointed to lead talks with the AES aimed at bringing them back to the fold as part of what Ecowas leaders described as ‘more vigorous' reconciliation efforts...
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A first official visit to Mali by Senegal's new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye induced no hint at compromise over Bamako's proclaimed departure from Ecowas with foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop dismissively commenting: ‘We can't be in organisations that we don't control' (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...
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...
Vol 65 No 14 |
- MAURITANIA
There had been speculation that voting in communities along the southern border might be influenced by the victory of the radical opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the 24 March Senegalese election...