Bassirou Faye Is Sworn In As President.
Left-winger, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has been sworn in as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.
During the swearing in, he said, “Before God and the Senegalese nation, I swear to faithfully fulfil the office of President of the Republic of Senegal.
The 44-year-old disclosed this before hundreds of officials and several African heads of state at an exhibition centre in the new town of Diamniadio near the capital Dakar.
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