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

This year has been an "annus horribilis" for those governments in sub-Saharan Africa that have had to face voters at the ...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday said he would remain head of the government rather than preside over the ...

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

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

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

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

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'.

Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal. Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on ...

Opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is leading the race in Senegal's presidential election, according to local media. Several of the 17 candidates have conceded to him, however official ...