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Senegal
Ex-PM Aminata Touré talks 2024 presidential election with former opponents

Aminata Touré, former prime minister of Senegal and incoming Member of Parliament, in Dakar, on 8 September 2022. © John Wessels/AFP

Aminata Touré has become one of the government's fiercest critics and no longer hides her ambitions for Senegal's 2024 election. The former prime minister may found her own party and has powwowed with disgruntled majority members in order to develop a strategy. [...]

Published on 23/11/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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