Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko spoke for hours in parliament on Friday, laying out the new government's plans barely a month after the decisive parliamentary election victory cementing the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was named as the prime minister in the new government on Tuesday, hours after his key ally was sworn in as president. Sonko, 49, ...

Senegal's new prime minister, who was freed from jail weeks before the presidential election earlier this year and propelled his party to victory, has criticized the French military presence in the ...

Senegal's prime minister insisted on Thursday that his country's substantial debt was "sustainable", in a press conference ...

(This April 5 story has been corrected to say that Faye succeeded, not defeated, outgoing President Macky Sall, in paragraph 2) DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal has a new government with 25 ministers and ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said on Thursday the debt-ridden country would not need to implement a restructuring ...

Senegal has inaugurated the youngest elected president in Africa. Newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye nominated Ousmane Sonko to be his prime minister this week, capping a remarkable ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said it remained engaged with Senegal as the West African country's prime minister promised a recovery plan to clean up billions in debts that ...

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 ...

DAKAR, SenegalDAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s new prime minister, who was freed from jail weeks before the presidential election earlier this year and propelled his party to victory, has criticized the ...