Dakar in History

Mamadou Dia becomes head of government before full independence

Senghor assumes the head of state role after independence

Senghor becomes first President of independent Senegal

Dia is removed during the political crisis with President Senghor

New constitutional settlement strengthens presidential rule after the Dia crisis

Senghor is re-elected under the strengthened presidential system

Senghor wins another presidential term

Diouf begins leading the government under President Senghor

Abdou Diouf becomes Prime Minister when the office is restored

Senghor wins re-election as President

Senghor wins his final presidential election

Diouf leaves the prime ministership to succeed Senghor as President

Senghor resigns and transfers power constitutionally to Abdou Diouf

Diouf becomes President after Senghor resigns

Habib Thiam becomes Prime Minister under President Diouf

Diouf becomes President of the Senegambia Confederation with Gambia

Diouf wins his first presidential election as incumbent

Thiam leaves office when the prime ministership is abolished again

Diouf abolishes the prime ministership and consolidates executive authority

Diouf wins re-election amid opposition protests

Senegambia Confederation ends during Diouf's presidency

Thiam leads the government under President Diouf

Habib Thiam returns as Prime Minister when the office is restored

Diouf wins another presidential term

Thiam leaves office after his second period as Prime Minister

Mamadou Lamine Loum becomes Prime Minister under President Diouf

Diouf leaves office after losing the presidential election

Abdoulaye Wade becomes President after Senegal's first democratic alternation

Loum leaves office after Wade's presidential victory

Moustapha Niasse becomes Prime Minister under President Wade

Niasse leaves office after a short premiership

Mame Madior Boye becomes Senegal's first female Prime Minister

Boye leaves office after the Joola ferry disaster crisis

Idrissa Seck becomes Prime Minister under President Wade

Seck leaves the prime ministership after tensions with President Wade

Macky Sall becomes Prime Minister under President Wade

Wade wins re-election for a second presidential term

Sall leaves the prime ministership and later breaks with Wade

Cheikh Hadjibou Soumare becomes Prime Minister

Soumare leaves office after local election setbacks for the ruling party

Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye becomes Prime Minister

Wade leaves office after losing the presidential election

Macky Sall becomes President after defeating Abdoulaye Wade

Ndiaye leaves office after the presidential transition

Abdoul Mbaye becomes Prime Minister under President Macky Sall

Aminata Toure becomes Prime Minister after Abdoul Mbaye leaves office

Mohammed Boun Abdallah Dionne becomes Prime Minister under President Macky Sall

Sall abolishes the prime ministership after beginning his 2nd term

Amadou Ba becomes Prime Minister when the office is restored

Bassirou Diomaye Faye becomes President after winning the 2024 election

Ousmane Sonko becomes Prime Minister under President Faye

Ahmadou Alhaminou Mohamed Lo becomes Prime Minister after Sonko is dismissed