Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko spoke for hours in parliament on Friday, laying out the new government's plans barely a month after the decisive parliamentary election victory cementing the ...

Ousmane Sonko, Senegal's top opposition leader, was released from prison ahead of the March 24 election but has been barred from running. Sonko's release energized supporters, with thousands ...

Protests have erupted in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, after a court sentenced the leading opposition figure Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail for “corrupting youth”, dealing a blow to his chances of ...

In September 2024, Ousmane Sonko blew the lid off a ‘hidden debt’ now estimated at $13.3bn – 10 times the figure in ...

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The party of jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko said Sunday it was sponsoring another candidate for the February presidential election, just days after Senegal‘s Supreme ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ousmane Sonko appealed a decision by Senegal’s Constitutional Council to disqualify him from next month’s presidential election, his lawyer said. Sonko, a frontrunner for the opposition ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was named as the prime minister in the new government on Tuesday, hours after his key ally was sworn in as president. Sonko, 49, ...

Those listed include Prime Minister Amadou Ba, chosen by President Macky Sall as his successor after Sall announced in July that he would not seek a third term. Also named were former prime ministers ...

Prime minister Ousmane Sonko of Senegal presides over the opening ceremony of the first edition of the west African festival ...

Senegal is resisting an IMF-recommended debt restructuring, but support from the Fund is critical for its recovery.

Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted Thursday of corrupting youth but acquitted on charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her. The ...