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SENEGAL – The municipality of Payar chooses Assane Dione for the municipal elections under the colours of the Pastef-Les patriotes party

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Who is Assane Dione. Assane Dione is a young pan-African activist born on January 03, 1994 in Darou Salam in the commune of payar, department of Koumpentoum, region of Tambacounda. After primary school in elementary school, he continued his medium studies at the CEM of Koumpentoum before obtaining his baccalaureate in 2013 at the El Hadj Bouna Semou Niang High School. After extensive studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, he trained in computer science and is currently a journalist-editor-reporter at a bilingual pan-African website. 

Assane Dione was President of the Departmental Union of Students of Koumpentoum (UDEEK) from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary General of the Municipal Union of Students of Payar (UCEEP) from 2016 to 2018. He is the assistant secretary of FRAPP NIANI-BAMBOUCK (Koumpentoum-kounguel) and a member of the Africa first movement where he is in charge of the School of the movement. A Pan-Africanist who is convinced and passionate about the invigoration of African history and the popularization of the various Pan-African leaders who marked their time. The young politician defines himself as a worthy heir of Malcolm X or Thomas Sankara who are his two main thinkers. 

Payar is a municipality located in the department of Koumpentoum and in the region of Tambacounda in Senegal. Payar is also the centre of Senegal. Payar is home to one of the largest markets in the country, held every Thursday. This market welcomes hundreds or even thousands of people from all over Senegal and the sub-region. Despite this strategic position, Payar has no roads and the market is without construction. 

Assane Dione welcomed the choice of his person with modesty and took the opportunity to appeal to all the patriots of Payar. “Alhamdoulilah PASTEF PAYAR chose my modest person to be the candidate of Pastef for the municipal elections. I make a solemn appeal to all the patriots of the commune to unite around the essential for an overwhelming victory of Pastef with the sole objective: a radical change of our dear locality. TOGETHER WE WILL DEFEAT INCHALLAH,” the pan-Africanist activist said on his Facebook page.

The politician also declined his goals and ambitions. “With our team we will meet with the people of Payar to present our project and especially our program. We want a revolutionary change in our community. It will be a question of putting forward a hard work with honest and qualified men in all areas. Help the people of Pays in the field of health, education, access to water… Our goal is to do politics differently. A policy based on pan-Africanism, in other words a policy based on the values of Africa. Make PAYAR one of the best communities in Senegal in terms of infrastructure development. Work with the people and for the people.” said Assane Dione.

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SENEGAL – The New Responsibility party will participate in the national dialogue

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Amadou Ba, Photo : Page Facebook

In a statement released on Sunday, May 18, the New Responsibility (NR), party led by former Prime Minister Amadou Ba, officially announced its participation in the national dialogue convened by President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye. This decision comes in a tense political context where several political formations have already made known their divergent positions on this presidential initiative.

Participation conditioned by broader ambitions
While New Responsibility (NR) confirms its presence in the upcoming discussions, it does not fail to point out that the proposed framework seems too narrow. The central theme of the political system is important, but it alone is not enough to meet the deep and legitimate expectations of Senegalese women and men,” reads the communiqué.

The party of Amadou Ba, defining itself as “an indisputable political force”, thus proposes to significantly expand the agenda of discussions to include several economic and social concerns that it considers priorities:

Public debt and the control of budget deficits;
Tax fairness;
Youth employment and employability;
Migration dynamics;
Sustainable development;
Purchasing power and the high cost of living;
The preservation of fundamental freedoms;

A strategic position in the political arena
This announcement comes at a time when the Senegalese political landscape remains divided on the very appropriateness of this dialogue. By agreeing to participate while seeking to redefine its scope, the New Responsibility adopts a constructive and critical posture that could allow it to stand out.

“Our participation is part of a dynamic of critical and constructive contribution, in a political, economic and social context of particular concern that requires rapid appeasement measures”, says the party, thus alluding to the tensions that run through Senegalese society.

A Republican vision claimed
The New Responsibility (NR) recalls its attachment to its credo “JAMM AK NJARIN” (peace and shared prosperity) and insists on its conception of national dialogue as “a republican instrument of pacification, strengthening democracy and consolidation of the rule of law”.

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BURKINA FASO – Ouagadougou and Dakar join forces to fight terrorism

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Ousmane Sonko and Ibrahim Traoré

The Senegalese Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko made his first official visit to Burkina Faso on Friday, May 16, 2025. During this visit, he reaffirmed to Captain Ibrahim Traoré the willingness of Senegal to provide its support in the face of the terrorist threat in the Sahel.
On an official visit to Ouagadougou, Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister of Senegal, was received in audience by the President of the Transition of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Accompanied by three members of his government—Yassine Fall, Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integration; Birame Diop, Minister of the Armed Forces; and Khady Diène Gaye, Minister of Sport — The head of the Senegalese government engaged in more diplomatic exchanges at the summit.

This first visit to Burkina Faso takes place against a background of high security tensions in the region. At the end of his meeting with President Traoré, Ousmane Sonko wished to express “the solidarity of the Senegalese people towards the people of Burkina Faso in the face of this test imposed on them, which they did not choose”. In addition, he provided “absolute support” to the transitional authorities and affirmed Senegal’s readiness to consider “any possibility of collaboration and support” in the face of the terrorist threat. He also stressed the need for a united and structured response, because, he said: “None of our countries can escape this gangrene”.

Ousmane Sonko, in his statements, calls for a collective approach to security in West Africa. He also said: “It is illusory to believe that the security threat will stop at the borders of Burkina Faso, Mali or Niger. It is a struggle of all West Africa”.

Ousmane Sonko not only spoke to Ouagadougou, but also to Bamako and Niamey.

Apart from the diplomatic issues, the visit of the Senegalese Prime Minister also has a historical dimension. Indeed, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, he took part in the inauguration of the Thomas Sankara Mausoleum, an emblematic figure of Pan-Africanism and its 12 companions in Ouagadougou. For the Senegalese Prime Minister, Thomas Sanka who is one of his master thinkers “has been illuminating all the pan-Africanist and sovereignist struggles on the continent for a few decades”. He also planned to meet with the Senegalese community living in Burkina Faso.

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MALI – The Malian transitional government dissolves all political parties

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Assimi Goïta Président intérim

Mali is turning a decisive page in its political life. By a presidential decree, adopted by the extraordinary Council of Ministers on 13 May 2025, the authorities of the military transition have officially dissolved all political parties and organizations of a political nature in the country. This is unprecedented in the country. In addition to generating a wave of national and international outrage, this decree marks the end of multi-party democracy.
A dissolution with the taste of “reform”
The announcement was made on the ORTM channel by Mamani Nassiré, Minister delegate to the Prime Minister responsible for political reforms. According to him, this decision is part of a broad process of “re-founding” political life. The government says it wants to “clean up” the partisan landscape by reducing the number of political parties now estimated at nearly 300. The government wants to set up and review their funding, which amounts to 0.25% of annual tax revenues. No political party can now organize meetings or carry out activities, under penalty of sanctions. On the other hand, elected representatives and officials belonging to political parties can continue their missions, on the sole condition that they no longer claim to be members of their party.

A repressed measure
For several weeks, many political parties, including the “Yelema” party, had denounced this project. Its president, Youssouf Diawara, said: “Political parties are not the problem in Mali. The emergency is insecurity, high cost of living, health and education”. Indeed, the political parties that oppose this decree see it as a violation of the Constitution and a setback for democracy. A citizen protest movement had emerged in early May. A demonstration, which gathered several hundred people on May 3, 2025 in Bamako, was quickly dispersed by the security forces. During this demonstration, several opposition and civil society figures were arrested and some people are reported missing.

Sanctioned media
In the past four years, Mali has seen two military coups. On 18 August 2020, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and his Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were removed from power before being arrested. Nine months later, the transitional president Bah N’Daw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane are deposed on May 24, 2021. In ten years, Mali has experienced three coups with the military takeover in 2012, and the fifth in the history of Mali after the coups d’état of 1991 and 1968. The Malian authorities have increased restrictions on both foreign and domestic media. They accuse them of partiality in the treatment of information concerning the situation of the country and disinformation. At the national level, in December 2024, the Djoliba TV News report was withdrawn. The High Authority for Communication (HAC) of Mali. The channel TV5 Monde has been suspended again “until further notice” on 13 May 2025. She is accused of “lack of impartiality” in her coverage of opposition protest movements on May 3, 2025 in her report for the 20:30 newspaper. It had already been suspended for three months in 2024.

Suspension of political parties: After Burkina Faso and Niger, it is the turn of Mali
The repeal of the charter of political parties that set their legal and financial frameworks, leaves an institutional vacuum according to its refractory. Political parties no longer exist legally. Only civil society still exists. But it remains closely monitored by the state. With this new decision taken by the transitional government, Mali joins its ESA neighbours. Before him, Burkina Faso suspended political party activities since September 2022. In Niger, General Abdourahamane Tiani ordered the dissolution of parties on 26 March 2025 following controversial national assizes.

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