{{Celebrated Africa’s music legend Youssou Ndour has been appointed to head Senegal’s Culture and Tourism Ministry.}}
The announcement of President Macky Sall’s new government was made late Wednesday, two days after his inauguration ceremony.
Earlier this year, Ndour himself launched a failed bid for the presidency and later threw his support behind Sall.
Senegal’s new president won a runoff election by a large margin, ousting an incumbent of 12 years.
Ndour, a Grammy-winning singer who is enormously popular in his home country, had turned in an application to run for president but was disqualified due to a lack of valid signatures.
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