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

Despite a reaffirmed conviction for defamation, Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko is pushing back, seeking to clear his ...

- Senegal's top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, right, and his key ally Bassirou Diomaye Faye address supporters in Dakar, ...

Kremlin welcomed the development, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov claiming it proves Western arsenals are being depleted and ...

Ousmane Sonko addresses journalists following his release from police custody in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 8, 2021.

Many survivors were pulled from the sea unconscious after hours adrift. Family members, gripped by fear, gathered at the port ...