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DAKAR (Reuters) -Clashes between security forces and protesters on Friday gripped Senegal's capital and other cities, the first widespread unrest over the delay of a presidential election that ...
The presidential ambitions of jailed Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko suffered two setbacks on Friday after the Supreme Court annulled a lower court's decision ordering his reinstatement ...
Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies. The election will take place after ...
Presidential candidates in Senegal kicked off their election campaigns on Saturday, following weeks of violent protests across the African country after the vote was delayed. The 19 approved ...
The 2023–2024 Senegalese protests broke out in Senegal on 1 June 2023 following opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's conviction for corrupting young people, which may disqualify him from standing in the 2024 Senegalese presidential election. [1] [2] At least 23 persons died during the protests and about 500 were arrested.
2 April: Bassirou Diomaye Faye is inaugurated as president. [9]3 April: President Faye appoints Ousmane Sonko as prime minister. [10]16 April: Customs authorities seize 1,140 kilograms of cocaine valued at $146 million from a lorry in Kidira, near the Malian border, the largest drug haul inside Senegalese soil.
Senegal’s government on Monday restricted mobile internet access and impeded protesters as federal lawmakers considered a bill to extend President Macky Sall’s tenure following his decision to ...
Senegal radio station to launch after police raid, Media Development Loan Fund, July 2007. African Development Information Services: Le Quotidien . This African newspaper-related article is a stub .