Spotlight | Senegal
Secret talks between Dakar and Paris spy chiefs after military exit

President Emmanuel Macron welcomes President Bassirou Diomaye Faye at the Élysée Palace in Paris, 27 August 2025.
President Emmanuel Macron welcomes President Bassirou Diomaye Faye at the Élysée Palace in Paris, 27 August 2025. © Abdullah Firas/Abaca via Reuters
France's DGSE foreign intelligence service chief Nicolas Lerner met with Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye in Paris last month after making a secret visit to Dakar to meet his counterpart there. Lerner is particularly worried about the Sahel jihadist threat spreading to coastal countries in West Africa. [...]
Reading time 4 minutes Pierre-Elie de Rohan Chabot
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