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A left-wing pan-Africanist, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was sworn in today as Senegal’s youngest president.
The 44-year-old has never before held an elected office but several African leaders attended the ceremony in the new town of Diamniadio, near the capital Dakar.
During the ceremony, Faye said before the gathered officials, “Before God and the Senegalese nation, I swear to faithfully fulfil the office of President of the Republic of Senegal.”
He also vowed to “scrupulously observe the provisions of the Constitution and the laws” and to defend “the integrity of the territory and national independence, and to spare no effort to achieve African unity.”
