{"id":235110,"date":"2026-06-02T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-all-of-africa-today-may-26-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:11:26","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-may-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-all-of-africa-today-may-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; May 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><strong>Senegal Parliament Speaker Steps Down as Leadership Rift Deepens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"104\">The Speaker of Senegal&#8217;s parliament, El Malick Ndiaye, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c87qq07l1d8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u00a0<\/a>from his post days after the country&#8217;s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye sacked his mentor-turned-deputy, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, and dissolved the government.\u00a0Ndiaye said his resignation followed &#8220;deep reflection&#8221; on &#8220;the sense of statehood&#8221;. Some now speculate there are plans to offer the vacant speaker post to Sonko by loyalists in defiance of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Senegal Parliament Speaker Steps Down as Leadership Rift Deepens The Speaker of Senegal&#8217;s parliament, El Malick Ndiaye, has\u00a0resigned\u00a0from his post days after the country&#8217;s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye sacked his mentor-turned-deputy, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, and dissolved the government.\u00a0Ndiaye said his resignation followed &#8220;deep reflection&#8221; on &#8220;the sense of statehood&#8221;. Some now speculate there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":235111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,257,254,1613,6637],"class_list":["post-235110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}