Senegal's new president urges 'more solidarity' in Africa – Le Monde

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Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the country’s youngest president was sworn in on Tuesday after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.
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Senegal’s new antisystem president Bassirou Diomaye Faye urged “more solidarity” between African countries “in the face of security challenges” on Tuesday, April 2, after being sworn in as the country’s youngest president. “At the African level, the scale of the security challenges… obliges us to show more solidarity,” he said in front of hundreds of officials and several African heads of state at an exhibition center in Diamniadio near the capital Dakar. “I reaffirm Senegal’s commitment to strengthening efforts to promote peace, security, stability, and African integration”, he added.
The 44-year-old pan-Africanist, who’s never before held an elected office, swept to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform. Several African leaders attended the ceremony. “Before God and the Senegalese nation, I swear to faithfully fulfill the office of President of the Republic of Senegal,” Faye said before the gathered officials. He also vowed to “scrupulously observe the provisions of the Constitution and the laws” and to defend “the integrity of the territory and national independence, and to spare no effort to achieve African unity.”
The formal handover of power with outgoing President Macky Sall will take place at the presidential palace in Dakar. Faye was among a group of political opponents freed from prison 10 days before the March 24 presidential ballot under an amnesty announced by Sall, who had tried to delay the vote. Faye’s campaign was launched while he was still in detention.
During the campaign, Bassirou Diomaye Faye collaborated with his populist mentor, Ousmane Sonko, a prominent anti-establishment figure who was disqualified from running in the election. Faye outlined their shared priorities in his victory speech, which included national reconciliation, addressing the cost-of-living crisis, and combating corruption. Shortly after this announcement, Faye appointed Sonko as his prime minister. “Mr Ousmane Sonko is named prime minister,” said Oumar Samba Ba, the general secretary of the presidency, as he read out a decree on the public television station RTS.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye has vowed to restore national sovereignty over key assets such as the oil, gas, and fishing sectors. Faye wants to leave the regional CFA franc, which he sees as a French colonial legacy, and invest more in agriculture to reach food self-sufficiency. But he has also sought to reassure investors that Senegal “will remain a friendly country and a sure and reliable ally for any partner that engages with us in virtuous, respectful and mutually productive cooperation.” On the international stage, Faye seeks to bring military-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger back into the fold of the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc.
After three tense years and deadly unrest in the traditionally stable nation, his democratic victory was hailed from Washington to Paris, via the African Union and the European Union. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the new president-elect following the results and “underscored the United States’ strong interest in deepening the partnership” between their two countries, the State Department said.
Le Monde with AFP
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