2024-02-06 22:18:00
When 2024 was released, all eyes were on the presidential elections of the year on the African continent. Among them, those of Senegal. The reality is that a month later, and at the threshold of the electoral campaign, what is one of the strongest democracies in West Africa has experienced one of its biggest blows. Last Saturday, the Senegalese president, Macky Sall, announced during a speech to the nation that the presidential elections were postponed. It took less than 24 hours for Dakar to rise up in protests.
They are not the first. In the summer of 2023, the arrest of Ousmane Sonko, leader of the opposition party Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (known as PASTEF by its French acronym), generated a wave of demonstrations and collapsed President Macky’s popularity. Sall.
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