Senegal prime minister sacked

Senegal’s president on Friday sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure, who has only been in power since September, less than a week after her ruling party was beaten in local elections. ‘Ms Aminata Toure’s functions have been terminated,’ said a decree signed by President Macky Sall. An official at the president’s office said that the resignation of the prime minister ‘means that the government has been dissolved’. Toure, who is 51, is the head of the Alliance for the Republic and was named prime minister last year to replace incumbent Abdoul Mbaye, according to AFP.