In Senegal, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday, May 22, confirming a political rift that had been building for months. Internal rivalries, governance disputes, economic reform disagreements, and struggles over power control shattered the partnership that once symbolized a break from the Macky Sall era. In this in-depth analysis, political analyst Babacar Ndiaye, director of research at the WATHI think tank, dissects the root causes and far-reaching consequences of this major political crisis at the heart of the Senegalese state.