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

In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, noting that it was “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...

Senegal’s President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has called for the closure of French military bases in the country, asserting ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

Heads of state from Mauritania, the Comoros, Gabon, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, and France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot joined Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who has used the ...

On Thursday, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP: "Senegal is an independent country, it is a sovereign country, and sovereignty does not accommodate the presence of military bases in a ...