Senegal's parliament has approved revisions to an amnesty law covering 2021-24 protests, paving the way for possible ...

Meanwhile, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was elected president last March, has pledged a clean break from the Sall era. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, a longtime opponent of Sall, promised last ...

Senegal’s parliament has approved revisions to a law passed under the former president that granted amnesty for offences ...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was elected president last March, has pledged a clean break from the Sall era. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko – a longtime opponent of Sall's – vowed last ...

The standoff, exacerbated by the arrest of Sall's political rival Ousmane Sonko in 2023, became one of the most violent episodes in Senegal since it gained independence from France in 1960.