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Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been sworn as Senegal’s youngest president today Tuesday April 2nd after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.
President Faye to the oath that “Before God and the Senegalese nation, I swear to faithfully fulfil the office of President of the Republic of Senegal,” the 44-year-old said before hundreds of officials and several African heads of state at an exhibition centre in the new town of Diamniadio near the capital Dakar.
