Dakar, Senegal — AFP Senegalese civil society groups have urged mass action after this month’s presidential poll was deferred to December, as President Macky Sall sought to quell public outcry and faced global pressure. The normally stable West African nation has plunged into its worst political upheaval in decades after lawmakers ...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP Senegalese lawmakers voted late Monday to delay this month’s presidential election until December, an unprecedented move that has sparked international concern over a country normally seen as a beacon of stability in West Africa. The bill was passed near unanimously, with 105 votes in favor and one against, aft...
Dakar, Senegal — AFP Access to mobile internet has been cut in Dakar, as Senegal grapples with a political crisis after President Macky Sall announced a postponement of this month’s election. Many users in the capital said they had been unable to access mobile data on their phones since Monday morning. Senegal’s parliament is...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Senegalese Constitutional Council has approved the final list of 20 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25, but two opposition leaders, Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade, have been excluded. According to the final list released late Saturday, which left out th...
Diamniadio, Senegal — AFP Senegalese President Macky Sall has inaugurated a United Nations regional headquarters near the capital Dakar to house all UN operations in the country, AFP journalists reported. The United Nations House sits on a 13-hectare (32-acre) site in the new town of Diamniadio, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Dakar, ...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA )- Senegal’s President Macky Sall dissolved members of the government by decree, according to a communique Friday. Sall “terminated, by decree dated October 06, 2023, the functions of the ministers, members of the government,” said a statement from Secretary-General of the Presidency Oumar Samba Ba. The p...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP Senegal President Macky Sall on Saturday designated Prime Minister Amadou Ba as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, presidential and governmental sources said. Sall, who took power in 2012 and was re-elected in 2019, announced in July after months of political uncertainty that he w...
Dakar, Senegal — AFP Senegal on Friday temporarily brought back into service a long-closed railway line to take worshippers to an annual religious festival. Three trains, each capable of carrying 240 passengers, have been deployed on a 130-kilometre line between Thies and the holy town of Touba in central Senegal, the GTS railway company...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP An influential Senegalese religious leader has joined calls for detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to end his hunger strike, an official from his political coalition told AFP. A presidential candidate and head of state Macky Sall’s fiercest critic, Sonko has faced a string of legal woes since 2021 that he...
Fass Boye, Senegal — AFP Under a cloudy sky in the coastal Senegalese village of Fass Boye, the local chief’s voice resounds over a loudspeaker, calling villagers to pray for the souls of their lost loved ones. Dozens of residents from the village of about 20,000 people, around 120 kilometres north of the capital Dakar, […]
