Senegal’s Faye Sacked His Mentor Sonko. Now They Govern as Rivals. (opens in new tab)
Two years after they won power together, Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has sacked his mentor and prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, who now controls parliament as speaker and is boycotting the new cabinet. Behind the personal rupture is a deeper split over whether Senegal bends to the IMF or holds to the sovereign line that brought them to office.
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