Senegal elected a new president, the U.S. allowed a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza to pass, and Venezuela’s political crisis worsened.
West Africa
Senegal’s top opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, was released from prison yesterday alongside his key ally, just over a week ahead of the country’s presidential election.
On Feb. 28, Guinea’s interim president, Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, appointed a new prime minister, an attempt to address mounting disillusionment toward his military-led transitional government at a time when Guinea’s transition back to an elected government seems to most activists and the political opposition to have stalled.
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