President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved Parliament late Tuesday

Newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a snap election on November 14 to secure a fresh mandate for his policies amid the country's economic crisis.

In one of the his first significant moves as Sri Lanka's newly-elected President, leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake today dissolved the country's Parliament and called for snap polls within one month.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday announced he had dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament and set new legislative elections for November 17. "I have dissolved the National Assembly to ask the sovereign people for the institutional means that would allow me to give substance to the systemic transformation that I promised them," Faye said on national television.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved parliament Thursday, just six months after he was elected president and said new legislative elections would be held on Nov. 17. Analysts say that…