More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country were choosing 165 lawmakers in the National Assembly, where the party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye does not hold a majority.

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

Doha, Qatar: President of the Republic of Senegal HE Bassirou Diomaye Faye left Doha Sunday after participating in the Doha ...

The popular president has taken a different approach, tasked with warming relations with neighboring junta leaders ...

Senegal's parliamentary election has handed President Bassirou Diomaye Faye a powerful mandate for change. Citizens now look ...

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

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 ...

Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal. Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye had nothing but the highest of praises for Oumar 'Reug Reug' Kane following the wrestling star's historic upset win at ONE 169. Kane dethroned Russian ...

Opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is leading the race in Senegal's presidential election, according to local media. Several of the 17 candidates have conceded to him, however official ...

Few had heard of him a year ago, and now he is set to become president. Bassirou Diomaye Faye's extraordinary rise caps a rollercoaster period in Senegalese politics that caught many off-guard.