By turns prisoner, prime minister and now president of the National Assembly, Senegal's charismatic politician and champion ...

After months of public tensions, Senegal's president last week fired his prime minister and former ally, the charismatic ...

Ousmane Sonko was elected president of Senegal’s National Assembly on May 26. The former prime minister becomes the country’s second-highest-ranking official. His election com ...

Power struggles often play out in Senegal’s political arena, both within a party and between rival parties. To summarise British foreign minister Lord Palmerston’s argument in 1848: In politics, there ...

Senegal's National Assembly elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as its speaker Tuesday in a vote boycotted by the ...

Senegal's former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who was dramatically sacked on Friday by the president, has been elected ...

Senegal's president has appointed a former banking executive as the new prime minister after his predecessor was sacked last ...

The Speaker of Senegal's parliament El Malick Ndiaye has resigned from his post days after the country's President Bassirou ...

The deadly virus has spread alarmingly in Congo for months. Only now is the response taking shape. By Declan Walsh Photographs by Arlette Bashizi Since an Ebola outbreak was declared in Bunia, a ...

Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye ​on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government, a ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday. The move follows months of growing tensions between the two top leaders. Sonko remains the dominant ...