Editing Senegal (section)

=== Foreign relations ===
{{Further|Foreign relations of Senegal}}

Senegal has a high profile in many international organizations and was a member of the [[UN Security Council]] in 1988–89 and 2015–2016. It was elected to the [[UN Commission on Human Rights]] in 1997. Friendly to the West, especially to the United States, Senegal has vigorously advocated for more assistance from developed countries to the [[Third World]]. The [[Foreign Minister of Senegal]] is [[Aïssata Tall Sall]]. She took office in November 2020.

[[File:The African Renaissance Monument.jpg|thumb|center|The African Renaissance Monument]]

Historically, Senegal has been close to France, its former colonizer, but this had caused a great amount of tension with the people and was one of the reasons why former President Macky Sall lost support. Senegalese often complained that Sall was consistently giving French companies priority contracts to extract Senegal's natural resources rather than giving the contracts to whoever offered Senegal the best deal. They also believed France was pushing Macky Sall to run for an unconstitutional third term. After debating whether to run a third time for months, Sall did not.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/world/africa/senegal-president-third-term.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125101411/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/world/africa/senegal-president-third-term.html|date=25 January 2024}}</ref>

Senegal enjoys mostly cordial relations with its neighbors. In spite of clear progress on other issues with [[Mauritania]] (border security, resource management, economic integration, etc.), an estimated 35,000 Mauritanian refugees (of the estimated 40,000 who were expelled from their home country in 1989) remain in Senegal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2014/05/mauritanian-refugees-refuse-leave-senegal-20145872721336117.html|title=Mauritanian refugees refuse to leave Senegal|date=8 May 2014|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=20 October 2018|archive-date=20 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020223751/https://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2014/05/mauritanian-refugees-refuse-leave-senegal-20145872721336117.html|url-status=live}}</ref>[[Morocco–Senegal relations|Morocco–Senegal]] relations have also been courteous, as the new [[Bassirou Diomaye Faye]] invited the king of Morocco on his swearing ceremony in 2024.

Senegal is well integrated with the main bodies of the international community, including the [[Economic Community of West African States]] (ECOWAS), the [[African Union]] (AU), and the [[Community of Sahel–Saharan States]].

Senegal is the 84th most peaceful country in the world, according to the 2024 [[Global Peace Index]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Global Peace Index |url=https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf}}</ref>