One sentence resulted in the Senegalese minister responsible for administration and equipment at the presidency being fired on December 31. “The skirmishers are traitors. They fought against their brothers”declared Cheikh Oumar Diagne, on the local television channel Fafa TV, on December 21. This outing immediately provoked heated controversy in the country, including among supporters of the president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who publicly split for the first time since coming to power in March.
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Debates which arise while the new Senegalese head of state, sovereignist and pan-Africanist, is forcing France to review its collaboration with its former colony. Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced in November that he was demanding the departure of French soldiers stationed in Senegal – a base has remained there since independence.
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