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SENEGAL: BASSIROU DIOMAYE FAYE SWORN IN AS 5TH PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL

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The youngest president in the history of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was sworn in on Tuesday April 2.

At the age of 44, Mr. Faye becomes the country’s fifth president since independence in 1960.

The inauguration ceremony took place in Diamniadio. Mr. Faye succeeds for five years Macky Sall, 62, who led the country for 12 years.

Several heads of state, including the Nigerian Bola Ahmed Tinubu, current president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Mauritanian Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the Gambian Adama Barrow, the Guinean Mamadi Doumbouya and Bissau-Guinean Umaro Sissoco Embalo were in Diamniadio. Ivorian Vice-President Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, Rwandan Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente and the president of the body serving as Parliament in Mali, Malick Diaw, were also on hand.

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