Senegal's youngest president takes oath in front of his African peers. At 44, Bassirou Diomaye Faye becomes the fifth and youngest president of the West African country since independence in 1960.
He succeeds Macky Sall, 62, who led the country of 18 million inhabitants for 12 years and maintained strong relations with the West and France. Nicknamed "Diomaye" ("the honorable" in Serer) and married to two wives - he is the first polygamous Senegalese president - and has four children.