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Senegal
Idrissa Seck courts prominent political figures for new coalition

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Former Senegalese prime minister Idrissa Seck, in Dakar, in February 2019.
Former Senegalese prime minister Idrissa Seck, in Dakar, in February 2019. © Carmen Abd Ali/AFP

Seeking to position himself as a third way between Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko, the former prime minister is reaching out to a string of political figures in the hope of building a broad coalition ahead of the next elections.

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