Senegal’s outspoken and combative opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was disqualified from running for president in the March 24 presidential election, but he had the last laugh on Thursday when his former lieutenant Bassirou Diomaye Faye appointed him as prime minister. Faye ran in Sonko’s place and won a resounding victory with over 54 percent of the vote.
The parliament of Senegal voted on Tuesday to delay the February 25 presidential election until December 15, sparking violent protests across the country.
EU leaders have begged those in Africa not to blame the West for the ongoing Global Food Crisis, saying that the current sanctions on Russia shouldn’t be affecting supply.
China’s communist head of state, Xi Jinping, arrived on Monday in Rwanda, the third leg of his Middle East and Africa tour to sell the nation’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) infrastructure program amid claims China is using the initiative to recolonize Africa.
