France, March 16 -- In Senegal, a report by the Court of Auditors on the management of public finances under former president Macky Sall could see him facing charges, in a first for the country.

Senegal will summon former president Macky Sall to court after the west African country's audit office unveiled irregularities in the treasury's bookkeeping on his watch, a government spokesman said on Friday, 28 February.

Sall, who led Senegal from 2012 to 2024,is accused of having presided over "catastrophic" mismanagement of the public purse after an independent report invalidated official figures under his stewardship, revising both debt and the public deficit sharply upwards.

Sall, who has lived in Morocco since leaving office last year, h...