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Senegal
Bassirou Sarr, the low-profile technocrat turned Bassirou Diomaye Faye's 'debt tsar'

LogoSubscribers only By Pierre-Elie de Rohan Chabot
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The IMF's headquarters in Washington in April 2024.
The IMF's headquarters in Washington in April 2024. © Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

With the country in the thick of a financial crisis, the new minister for the budget has been overseas, from Paris to Beijing and Washington. He has been establishing himself as the key figure in negotiations with donors, as a resolution to Senegal's debt crisis looms on the horizon.

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