The newly appointed Prime Minister of Senegal Ms Aminata Toure (in photo) has set up a 32 member cabinet following consultations with President Macky Sall and other political stakeholders.

Among the top Ministers that lost their posts are the Ministers of Interior General Pathe Seck and    Finance Amadu Kane who is said to be a close relative of President Sall.

Senegal's former justice minister, Aminata Toure, has been appointed to replace the prime minister, Abdoul Mbaye, she announced to the press on Sunday after the former government had been dismissed.

Toure said after talks at the presidential palace in Dakar that the Senegalese head of state Macky Sall "did me the honour of asking me to form a new government... and I have accepted this post with much humility."

The Senegalese parliament yesterday overwhelmingly voted in favour of a bill that introduced gender parity on the lists of proportional representation that political parties should present for legislative polls in the country.
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iKNOW Politics was presented during the High level meeting on African EMBs on Transformative and Gender Sensitive Elections Management in Mbodieng, Senegal from July 26 to 30