This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Tag: Senegal
Senegal’s new govt to audit oil, gas, mining industries, pledging to protect investor rights
Senegal will conduct a comprehensive audit of the oil, gas and mining sectors, according to the newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who, however, also ... Read More
Senegal’s new president Faye vows ‘systemic change’, names firebrand opposition leader Sonko as PM
Only hours after being sworn in as Senegal's president on Tuesday (2 April), Bassirou Diomaye Faye named popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko as the nation’s ... Read More
Senegal’s new president appoints Ousmane Sonko prime minister
Senegalese newly elected president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, appointed popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko as his prime minister. Like Faye 44, Sonko 49 also went to ... Read More
King Mohammed VI represented at inauguration ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect; sole head of state outside the sub-region to have been invited
King Mohammed VI was represented at the swearing-in and inauguration Ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, by Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch. The Sovereign ... Read More
Morocco’s King vows to diversify, strengthen promising strategic partnership with Senegal
King Mohammed VI has vowed to diversify and strengthen the promising strategic partnership existing between Morocco and Senegal. This came in a message of congratulations ... Read More
Senegal: celebration erupts as opposition candidate Faye nears victory in presidential vote
Senegal’s leading opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday (25 March) appeared to be reaching victory in the country’s delayed presidential election, as people have ... Read More
Senegal: short election campaign in full swing for delayed presidential vote on 24 March
Campaigning for the upcoming presidential election is in full swing in Senegal, as the country’s voters will head to the polls this Sunday (24 March), ... Read More
Senegal’s president proposes general amnesty in bid to calm political tensions
Senegal's embattled President Macky Sall announced on Monday February 26 a general amnesty for political demonstrators from 2021 to 2024 and urged participants in a ... Read More
Senegal: Court rules govt’s delay of presidential poll was ‘unlawful’
Senegal’s Constitutional Council, the country's top election authority, ruled on Thursday that the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for 25 February and its ... Read More
Avoiding ‘resource curse’: why Africans benefit little from big oil and gas finds
Senegal joins other African countries like Nigeria or Namibia that have struggled to manage their oil and gas resources discovered in recent years for the ... Read More