Senegalese PM Sonko Accuses Trump of Plunging World into ‘Chaos’ as US-Iran Ceasefire Takes Effect
DAKAR – Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of destabilizing the global order and failing to deliver peace amid the ongoing conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran.
Speaking at an international conference on sovereignty in Dakar, Sonko criticized the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, arguing that none of its stated objectives have been achieved.
“The stated goals – from weakening Iran’s ballistic capacity to forcing it to abandon its nuclear programs – have not been met,” Sonko said. “Instead, this conflict has unleashed widespread instability that nothing can justify.”
The Senegalese leader questioned whether the world has become any safer under Trump’s leadership, asserting that the U.S. president has “plunged the global order into chaos rather than delivering peace.”
Sonko’s remarks came just hours after the United States and Iran agreed to a conditional two-week ceasefire. Under the deal, shipping traffic will be allowed to resume through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint for global oil supplies.
The ceasefire agreement follows more than a month of coordinated U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iranian targets. It was announced only hours after President Trump issued a stark ultimatum, threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not reopen the strait.
Neither the White House nor the State Department has yet responded to Sonko’s accusations. The conditional ceasefire is seen by some analysts as a fragile step toward de-escalation, though deep tensions remain.
Sonko, speaking at the sovereignty conference, did not offer any immediate policy proposals but used the platform to call for a more stable and multipolar world order, free from what he described as unilateral military adventurism.
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