UK Duchess of Edinburgh travels to Chad amid ongoing crisis in Sudan
The Duchess of Edinburgh is on a three-day visit Chad in central Africa, amid a growing humanitarian crisis being faced
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dissolved the opposition-led parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a snap legislative election six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform. The new election will take place Nov. 17, Faye said in a televised address in which he asked voters to give his party a mandate so that he can carry out the “systemic transformation that I promised.” The Benno opposition pary Bokk Yaakar led by former President Macky Sall said Faye had convened a legislative session under false pretenses in order to announce the dissolution of Parliament and accused him of “perjury.”
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