{"id":43785,"date":"2026-05-26T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/26\/senegals-ex-pm-elected-national-assembly-speaker-despite-sacking-from-president\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:01:42","slug":"senegals-ex-pm-elected-national-assembly-speaker-despite-sacking-from-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/26\/senegals-ex-pm-elected-national-assembly-speaker-despite-sacking-from-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal&rsquo;s ex-PM elected National Assembly speaker despite sacking from president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senegal&rsquo;s National Assembly elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as its speaker on May 26 in a vote boycotted by the opposition, following months of tension that culminated in the sacking. The high-profile political divorce risks pitting president Faye against Sonko&rsquo;s supporters in parliament over reforms that include taming the country&rsquo;s runaway debt. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Caitlin Kell tells us more from Dakar.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&rsquo;s National Assembly elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as its speaker on May 26 in a vote boycotted by the opposition, following months of tension that culminated in the sacking. The high-profile political divorce risks pitting president Faye against Sonko&rsquo;s supporters in parliament over reforms that include taming the country&rsquo;s runaway debt. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-43785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}