Clashes broke out on Sunday afternoon in Dakar where the Senegalese gendarmes dispersed with tear gas hundreds of people. Men and women of all ages, waving Senegal flags or wearing the jersey of the national football team, converged at the beginning of the afternoon.

One of the presidential candidates, Daouda Ndiaye, posted a message on social networks in which he claims to have been “brutalized” by the police, and reports that some of his collaborators were “arrested”