Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has affirmed he will remain head of government rather than preside over parliament, ...

The ruling Pastef party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Sonko won 130 seats in the 165-seat national assembly in snap ...

Like Equatorial Guinea’s Baltasar Ebang Engonga, many of Africa’s leading political figures have been caught up in sex ...

Voters handed Senegal's president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.

With a president who owes his success to his mentor-turned-prime minister Ousmane Sonko, Senegal's political situation was ...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday said he would remain head of the government rather than preside over the parliament, after his party's landslide election win sparked questions over hi ...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday called for vengeance following what he described as attacks against supporters of his Pastef party by the opposition during the campaign for ...

In the upcoming parliamentary elections in Senegal scheduled for this weekend, former presidential rivals Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and former President Macky Sall will face off once more ...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has urged supporters of the ruling Pastef party to take revenge for alleged violence against them during the campaign for a parliamentary election this ...

Supporters of then-presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye and opposition leader Ousmane Sonko gather outside their ...

This victory grants Pastef significant power to push through structural reforms, with representatives hailing the “massive support of the people”. Voter turnout reached nearly 50%.