Senegalese Prime Minister sets out plan for government

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said Friday that his government would submit legislation to repeal a law by former president Macky Sall granting amnesty for deadly political violence.

The controversial amnesty was granted just before March 2024 elections as Sall sought to calm protests sparked by his last-minute postponement of the vote in the traditionally stable West African country. Sonko's government pledged earlier this month to investigate dozens of deaths resulting from the political violence between 2021 and 2024.

Sonko's speech also laid out plans for the next five years to pull Senegal out of three years of economic and political turmoil that have sent unemployment soaring. Sonko also said the teaching of English would be established in elementary schools, in a country where public education is in French.