Senegal's youngest president Faye vows systemic change, sovereignty
The Peninsula
Dakar: Left wing pan Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday becameSenegal s youngest president, pledging systemic change, greater sovereignty and...
Dakar: Left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday became Senegal's youngest president, pledging systemic change, greater sovereignty and calm after years of deadly turmoil.
The 44-year-old, who has never before held an elected office, swept to a first-round victory on a promise of radical reform just 10 days after being released from prison.
Faye took the presidential oath in front of hundreds of officials and several African heads of state at an exhibition centre in the new town of Diamniadio, near Dakar.
He then returned to the capital, with his motorcade greeted by hundreds of jubilant residents who lined the roads leading to the presidential palace. His predecessor, Macky Sall, symbolically handed Faye the key to the presidential headquarters before leaving the palace.
