Nigeria, June 2 -- Senegal's President Bassirou Faye has appointed a new cabinet less than two weeks after firing his former ally, Ousmane Sonko, and dissolving his government.

The new 30-member cabinet was announced on Monday in a live broadcast, an hour after Mr Sonko, the ousted prime minister, withdrew his party, PASTEF, from the country's new government.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that Mr Sonko announced on Monday that the PASTEF party will no longer be participating in the government, nor will any minister represent it. In the live address that aired shortly afterwards, Mr Faye announced his new cabinet members, none of whom included the party members, according to Bloomberg.

Mr Sonko said in a post on X that he met with Mr Faye and t...