The 7.3 million registered voters will choose whether to hand a parliamentary majority to newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko. Faye and Sonko swept to ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s governing party is poised to win a parliamentary majority as main opposition leaders conceded defeat Monday in an election determining whether newly elected President ...

How times have changed. In February 2021, Ousmane Sonko was still the face of the opposition in Senegal. He had just been accused of rape by a young employee of a massage parlour. This complaint was ...

Senegal is at loggerheads with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a bailout it urgently needs to plug a gaping hole in its public finances. While the IMF wants the West African nation to ...

Senegal's ruling party won over three-quarters of parliamentary seats in weekend elections, according to national provisional results announced Thursday, potentially handing them the means to deliver ...

Supporters of then-presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye and opposition leader Ousmane Sonko gather outside their campaign headquarters as they await the results of the presidential election, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s governing ...