Several opposition candidates have congratulated Bassirou Diomaye Faye after he appeared to be ahead in preliminary tallies. However, the governing coalition has said it was sure there would be a runoff. Senegalese opposition candidate and tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday appeared to be reaching victory in Senegal’s presidential election. The vote follows several […]
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The 130 ECOWAS observers are monitoring the Presidential elections which is taking place at 15,633 polling units across the country. The Head of the ECOWAS election observation mission to the Presidential election in Senegal, lbrahim Gambari, has expressed satisfaction with the process so far. Mr Gambari, a professor, led a delegation made up of the […]
Dakar — Senegalese voters are casting ballots after outgoing President Macky Sall’s attempt to delay the elections plunged the country into months of political crisis. It’s a day many have been waiting for, including Jules Rolland Pascal Diatta. He was the first to cast his ballot in voting room number seven at a school about […]
Election in Senegal is underway. A large proportion of voters are women who arrived in groups. In Kolda District, 670kms away from Dakar, Senegal’s capital, voting began in earnest as early as 8.10am as large number of people turned out to cast their votes for their candidates. A large proportion of the voters are women […]
Senegal votes on Sunday in a presidential election that is expected to be the most tightly contested in years. Before polls opened, a team of a thousand observers drawn from civil society was preparing to monitor the long-awaited vote. In Dakar, Senegal’s capital, a team of volunteers were stationed behind laptops, phones to their ears. […]
Monrovia — Senegalese President Macky Sall said, during an interview, that he has no regrets for his decision to postpone the country’s presidential election. Speaking to the BBC, Sall said all measures taken at the time were in line with the rules and regulations governing the electoral process. “No legal or judicial institution has cast […]
Dakar — The pre-election legal dispute has ended, but the political dispute has not. The electoral campaign began on Sunday, March 9, 2024, and will end on the 22nd, which means 12 days of effervescence and proposals, not to say promises, which as the saying goes “applies only to those who believe in them”. However, […]
Dakar — The first round of the presidential election will happen on March 24, 2024, in Senegal. There are 19 candidates in the race, including one woman. There are notable figures from political backgrounds, opposition leaders, and independent candidates with diverse experiences among these candidates. Since the start of the campaign, which coincided with Ramadan, […]
Senegal’s charismatic opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his coalition’s presidential candidate flew to the south of the country Saturday, pressing on with their election campaign less than two weeks before the vote. Sonko and his ally Bassirou Diomaye Faye were greeted by hundreds of supporters after they flew into the coastal resort of Cap Skiring […]
Thousands of supporters of the Senegalese opposition leaders Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye were celebrating on Friday after the pair emerged from prison in Dakar. Their release – which was announced on state channel RTS on Thursday night – follows weeks of crisis after President Macky Sall postponed the scheduled presidential poll on 25 […]
Dakar — The campaigning continues in Senegal with the 19 candidates for the presidential election, but at this stage – with a few weeks to go – the candidates no longer have time to go to the nooks and crannies of the country to meet citizens. Here are summaries of their plans if they were […]
To consolidate peace in Casamance, President Macky Sall received the initiative for the reunification of the political and armed wings of the MFDC as well as the ex-combatants of the Diakay faction, who agreed to lay down their arms. The meeting follows the signing of a cessation of hostilities agreement with the ad hoc committee […]
Dakar, Senegal — As young people quit Senegal amid mounting economic and political hardship that has seen universities close and jobs dry up, local charities have moved in to stem the exodus by offering practical training aimed at helping vulnerable youth forge a path into the workplace. The country has been thrown into political crisis […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall has said delayed presidential elections will be held on 24 March after the country’s top court found it would be unconstitutional to hold the vote after his mandate expires on 2 April. Confusingly, however, the Constitutional Council overruled the government by choosing 31 March as the date. The Council of Ministers […]
Following weeks of protests, President Macky Sall’s government has announced a presidential election will take place later this month. Senegal’s government announced on Wednesday that the delayed presidential election will take place on March 24. On February 3, President Macky Sall announced the postponement of elections scheduled for February 25, triggering widespread uproar in a […]
Dakar — Minister of the Interior Me Sidiki Kaba, presented the report resulting from the national dialogue this Monday, March 4, 2024, to the President of the Republic, Macky Sall. The talks were held at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center in Diamniadio (Cicad),30km east of Dakar, reports APA. “He (Sall) plans to contact the […]
The draft law on amnesty submitted to the Parliament by the Senegalese government relating to protests between March 2021 and February 2024, in which more than 60 people were killed, is an affront to victims of the violence and a troubling endorsement of impunity, Amnesty International said today. The adoption of the amnesty law by […]
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has again insisted he will leave power on 2 April, the day his mandate ends, despite postponing the election that would have picked his successor. The opposition has demanded that the vote be held before Sall’s term is up, but so far the president has only committed to calling an election […]