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The winner will be tasked with steering Senegal, viewed as a beacon of democracy in coup-hit West Africa, out of its recent troubles and managing reve...
While President Macky Sall set March 24 as the date, Senegal's top constitutional body said it should take place on March 31.
The amnesty is part of President Macky Sall's response to turmoil sparked by his last-minute postponement of the presidential election, originally sch...
Several speakers representing some of the election candidates addressed the crowd, including former prime minister Aminata Toure, a member of the "Bas...
The amnesty could result in the release of hundreds of people detained during anti-government protests that first erupted in 2021, including leading o...
Sall's two-day "national dialogue" aimed at setting a date for the delayed election also advocated the head of state remain in office beyond the end o...
Senegal is grappling with its worst political crisis in decades after Sall's last-minute deferral of the February 25, 2024 election.
Sall presented the amnesty move as a way of reuniting the country, after bouts of unrest that have killed dozens in the past three years.
The measures to be lifted included the freezing of Niger's assets in ECOWAS central banks and the suspension of financial transactions between ECOWAS...
Even before the West African nation had fully emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, it was rocked by violent riots in March 2021 triggered by the arrest...
Elymane Haby Kane, one of the organisers of the march, told AFP he had received an official letter from local authorities in the capital Dakar that th...
A fresh round of protests is planned for Tuesday.
The teenager "took a projectile to the head and died of his injuries in intensive care" on Saturday evening, a hospital source said.
With its reputation at stake, ECOWAS's handling of the latest political upheaval - in Senegal - is being closely watched.
A newly formed collective –- comprising some 40 civil, religious, and professional groups –- outlined a series of upcoming actions including a protest...
