Former justice minister and current prime minister of Senegal Aminata Toure attends a news conference in Dakar, Senegal, September 2, 2013. REUTERS/Mamadou Gomis
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure on Friday after she failed to win a seat at local elections on Sunday, a presidential source said.
Toure, who had held the post since September, was attempting to defeat the popular Socialist mayor of the capital, Khalifa Sall, in Dakar's constituency of Grand Yoff. The mayor is no blood relation of the president.
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