In Senegal, the State of Budgetary Emergency Is Overshadowing the Rupture Promised by the Duo Diomaye-Sonko

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Debt revalued, degraded, frozen aid: a financial crisis threatens the stability of the country and tests the capacity of the new power to reform.

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Senegal is going through an unprecedented political sequence marked by the arrival in power of an atypical presidential tandem: Bassirou Diomaye Faye, President of the Republic, and Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister. One is a discreet and legalist technocrat. The other is a charismatic, radical and popular tribune. Both formed in the eyes of many voters a promising alliance. Together, they embodied the hope of a renewal, of a more ethical governance…