Senegal president says Pastef party bigger than any one man in jab at PM Sonko

Tensions between Senegal’s leaders came to the fore on Saturday as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye sent a message to Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko: their Pastef party is bigger than any one man.

In a televised interview, Faye warned of “excessive personalisation,” saying the party “risks being destroyed if its participants don’t change course.”

Sonko has a passionate following among the country’s disaffected youth, with whom his…