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Senegal results show large win for opponent Faye in presidential poll

Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye wins Senegalese presidential election with 54.28% of votes. Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed Wednesday. He placed well ahead of the governing coalition’s candidate, former prime minister Amadou Ba, who garnered

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Bassirou Diomaye Faye elected president of Senegal

Former tax inspector and political novice Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been elected president of Senegal. Faye, 44, was released from prison several weeks ago, and his presidential campaign was backed by popular, left-wing opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Sonko himself was barred from running because of a prior criminal conviction, largely perceived as a political ploy

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Senegal opposition stronger after vote turmoil

The chaos was one of traditionally stable Senegal’s worst crises since independence from France in 1960. Senegal’s anti-establishment figureheads have emerged stronger from a three-year struggle against President Macky Sall’s government and the courts after their release from prison ahead of this month’s election, analysts say. Firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his number two,

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Senegal top court upholds March 24 presidential vote 

Rejected candidates and allied lawmakers had called for presidential decrees setting the date of the vote to be suspended. Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrate after the two men were released from prison, in Dakar on March 14, 2024. – Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his

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Senegal moves towards certainty for presidential vote

President Macky Sall plunged Senegal into one of its worst crises in decades with his last-minute postponement of the election. Senegal on Thursday looked set to elect a new president at the end of March and  ease the crisis triggered by the delay to the presidential poll, but the exact date of the vote remained

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Macky Sall Sets Senegal Election date

President Macky Sall of Senegal on Wednesday dissolved his cabinet, replaced the prime minister and rescheduled the country’s presidential election to March 24, according to a government statement. The move came weeks after Mr. Sall postponed the ballot indefinitely, throwing the country into one of its deepest political crises in recent history as many feared

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Senegal sets March 24 election date after controversial delay

The Senegalese government has set March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election, according to an official statement issued Wednesday after a meeting of the Council of Ministers. SENEGALESE LEADERS PROPOSE JUNE ELECTIONS AFTER COURT REJECTS PRESIDENT’S DELAY Macky Sall, President of Senegal, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations

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Senegal leader announces amnesty bill to end poll-linked turmoil

Senegal’s President proposes amnesty bill for political protesters arrested since 2021, aiming to end recent turmoil over delayed elections. Senegal’s President Macky Sall has proposed a general amnesty bill for political protesters arrested since 2021, as he holds talks to end fresh turmoil over delayed elections. The West African nation is facing its worst political

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Senegal president opens dialogue to find way out of crisis

Sall has faced public outcry and growing calls to set an election date after he abruptly delayed the February 25 vote. Senegal’s President Macky Sall was on Monday due to begin talks to end weeks of political turmoil and decide a date for the delayed presidential poll, but major political and social stakeholders have said

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