As the 44-year-old is sworn in after a crucial election, we chart the road to victory for Africa’s newest and youngest leader. Dakar, Senegal – “Finally, we can breathe,” the cashier at the American Food Store supermarket in Dakar said while swiping a pot of Greek yoghurt through checkout. It was three days after Senegal’s...
Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Nangolo Mbumba has extended his congratulations to President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal for his victory in Senegal’s first round of voting and his subsequent election as the President-elect of the country. “I wish to congratulate President-elect H.E. Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his brilliant victory during the March 2024 Presidential elections in...
The President H.E. Nangolo Mbumba has extended warm congratulations to President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his decisive victory in the March 2024 Presidential elections in Senegal. In a message from the presidency, Mbumba emphasized the peaceful conduct of the elections as a testament to Senegal’s enduring status as a beacon of stability and progress in...
Senegal’s former prime minister Amadou Ba has congratulated rival opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye for winning the country’s presidential election. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the first round of a delayed presidential election suggested Faye (44) may have clinched an outright majority. The trends announced on local media sparked street...
On Dakar’s long Hann Bay beach, a lone figure with a shovel and wheelbarrow tirelessly picks up mounds of rubbish in such quantities that the task takes on an almost mythological air. The smell is acrid. A few metres from the man, a pipe carries a black mixture of household and factory wastewater into the...