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Senegal's inaugural first lady, Colette Hubert Senghor, wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor, was from France. [1] [2] The country's second first lady, Elizabeth Diouf, is the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Senegalese mother. [1] Like Colette Senghor, Viviane Wade, Senegal's third first lady, is an ethnic French woman from France. [1]
Marieme Faye Sall, also spelled Marème Faye Sall, is a Senegalese public figure who served as the first lady of Senegal from 2012 to 2024, as wife of President Macky Sall. She is the country's first first lady to possess full Senegalese heritage by birth and ethnicity, as her three predecessors were of ethnic French or half Lebanese origin.
Marie Khone Faye is the oldest child of a family of seven children. [1] Her father, Mbaye Faye, is a retired teacher in Ndiaganiao and her mother, Coumba Faye, is a stay-at-home mother.
Some young women in Senegal are returning to the traditional notion of marriage, said Marième Wone Ly, the first woman to lead a political party in Senegal over two decades ago. “We have to be ...
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Senegalese voted Sunday in a tightly contested presidential race following months of uncertainty and unrest that has tested the West African nation’s reputation as a stable democracy in a region ...
Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye (Wolof: Basiiru Jomaay Jaxaar Fay; born 25 March 1980), commonly known mononymously as Diomaye, is a Senegalese politician and former tax official who is serving as the fifth and current president of Senegal since 2024.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.