With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that will decide the extent to which the new president will be able to implement his agenda. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been under pressure to make good on promises to crack down on[Read More…]
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Former Senegalese President Involved In Dispute At Casablanca Airport
Former Senegalese President Macky Sall, who has been living in Morocco since leaving office, was involved in a heated dispute with a Senegalese compatriot at Casablanca airport. According to reports on social media and in some media outlets, the incident occurred on Sunday when a Senegalese passenger confronted the former[Read More…]
Ousted President Quits Gabon Politics, Calls For Wife’s Release
Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo has announced he will quit politics a year after he was toppled from power by a military coup. “I wish to reaffirm my withdrawal from political life and the definitive renunciation of any national ambition,” Mr Bongo said in a letter addressed to the Gabonese[Read More…]
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