Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has expressed concerns about the erosion of international norms and the growing ...

The IMF, a key financier for the debt-laden country, froze disbursements on its programme with Senegal last year after an ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko against his conviction for defamation, which ...

Senegal's Supreme Court confirmed on Tuesday that it would uphold the defamation conviction for current prime minister ...

The Supreme Court of Senegal has definitively dismissed the petition for a stay of execution filed by prime minister Ousmane ...

Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted on June 1, 2023, of corrupting youth but acquitted on charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) ...

At least one person died in clashes after Ousmane Sonko, a strong rival to the president, was sentenced in absentia to two years in a trial that many Senegalese considered politically motivated.

Ousmane Sonko, Senegal's top opposition leader, was released from prison ahead of the March 24 election but has been barred from running. Sonko's release energized supporters, ...

Ousmane Sonko, a fiery figure with a loyal youth following, was charged with fomenting insurrection, and his party dissolved. By Elian Peltier and Dionne Searcey Reporting from Dakar, Senegal ...

Senegal's new prime minister Ousmane Sonko is a firebrand politician who rallied Senegalese youth to enable the election of his top lieutenant Bassirou Diomaye Faye as president, and who now, as ...

STORY: Ousmane Sonko, a firebrand politician, is Senegal's new prime minister. He rallied Senegalese youth to enable the election of his top lieutenant Bassirou Diomaye Faye as president. Now, as ...

Senegal's jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on a hunger strike in prison to protest criminal charges against him, was hospitalized Sunday, his party said.