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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 ...
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 ...
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’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's opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections among other offenses, the public prosecutor said Saturday.
A group of Senegalese civic and religious leaders proposed holding elections in early June, the first new date offered since the president attempted to push elections back to the end of the year.
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.
A day after his release from jail, Senegal opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye drew hundreds of supporters at his first public appearance as a presidential contender on Friday for March 24 ...