Police and protesters clash after Senegal election postponed

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Police and protesters clash after Senegal election postponed


Opposition candidates in Senegal say they’ll appeal President Macky Sall’s decree to postpone this month’s presidential election.
Demonstrators have been holding protests against the decision, with police responding by firing tear gas, and even detaining an opposition presidential candidate.

Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Dakar,…

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27 Comments

  1. Nothing shocking, white people always turn to violence when threatened then hide behind genocide while funding wars in order to retain power, then try appear as the saviors 🙄 they cannot fool this generation, the jig is up

  2. Senegal has petrol and gas like Nigeria but the French governement is exploiting it with the Nigerian governement and make it sound like it is Nigerian petrol because France has been using Nigerian citizens for such a long time to fight its own citizens from progressing and enter politics in France therefore, capable of occupying ministerial positions just like my two granddads Leopold Sedar Senghor and grandpa Houphouet Boigny did in the 60s

  3. Macky Sall is aiming to stay till December 2024 during which time he hopes to cheat the system once again, but what this sickening dictator doesn't know yet, is that this time around he probably will not make it till then. Sall is now playing with fire, little does he realize like all dictators do, that there comes the time to leave before he gets booted out in the same way several other African leaders got booted out with the space of one year, then whose fault would it have been but his. I blame Ecowas, France, the EU and the US for not being decisive nor incisive when it comes to the abuse of power by such a greedy leader and when forceful changes take place, everyone starts scrambling for positioning and excuses by which time it would have become too late. Senegal is way too much of a heavy weight when it comes to the impact it may cause in the event of forceful changes and no one is more poised to lose than France, the EU and the US. Who at this material time will doubt that forces opposed to the West are now at work to use this void to replace the West in Senegal and hence cause a massive malaise in the region? Here they all are gawking and watching like helpless bystanders an abusive dictator lie Macky Sall play with the fate of an entire nation that till now was the envy of Africa for its stability and democracy. What France and the West should have done is to immediately penalize Sall for his Coup and pressure him with utmost pressure to rescind his insane decision, now if Senegal starts to burn, they have no one to blame but their stupidity and myopia.