By Enyichukwu Enemanna
Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has slammed the US President, Donald Trump, faulting the US-Israel war against Iran which has exceeded its first month.
Sonko accused Trump of upending the global order but to no benefit.
“Reducing Iran’s ballistic capabilities has not been achieved. Forcing Iran to abandon all nuclear programmes, both civil and military, is not an objective that has been achieved,” Sonko said at an international conference on sovereignty in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Thursday.
He told his audience, “None of the objectives has been met, and yet the world has been plunged into chaos that nothing can justify. Mr Trump is not a man of peace; he is a man who destabilises the world.”
The conference was hosted by French political scientist Pascal Boniface. He said the world is witnessing a historic shift, with the emergence of the Global South and its demand to be treated as an equal.
“Westerners have not lost power, they have not lost wealth; they have lost their monopoly on them,” Boniface said.
“But there is room for everyone and, in fact, at the global table there should not be people who are seated at the table and others who are kept at a distance, allowed only a stool or only the right to serve,” he stated.
Sonko called for African nations to join forces and pool their power.
He also pointed to Africa’s youth as a “force to be mobilized,” saying sovereignty can’t be achieved without their involvement.
