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A new era has begun in Senegal, a West African nation. Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been inaugurated as the new President, averting a crisis that almost pushed the country to the edge. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who has never held an elected office, is now set to lead a nation grappling with a failing economy that has left one in three of the approximately 17 million impoverished inhabitants. Political analysts say that this peaceful transfer of power in a region that has experienced coups is a sign of Senegal’s political maturity and pride in its democratic stability. To shed more light on this issue, VOA’s Paul Ndiho spoke to Mundia Paul Hakoola, a political analyst based in Lusaka, Zambia.