At midnight, the crowd gathered to sing “Happy Birthday” to the new President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Faye, 44, who was released from jail just 10 days prior, won the first round of ...

Voters handed Senegal's president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye says Senegal 'does not accept the presence of military bases in a sovereign country'.

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

The Senegalese government has claimed victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections with most of the votes already counted. It ...

More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country were choosing 165 lawmakers in the National Assembly, where ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s party won an overwhelming majority in parliamentary elections, paving the way ...

Few had heard of him a year ago, and now he is set to become president. Bassirou Diomaye Faye's extraordinary rise caps a rollercoaster period in Senegalese politics that caught many off-guard.

Just weeks after being released from jail, Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become Senegal's youngest ever president following an extraordinary election victory. The meteoric rise of The 44-year ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, noting that it was “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty.