Senegal: deputies consider the postponement of the presidential election. President Macky Sall announced on Saturday that he wanted to postpone the vote.

It is the first time since 1963 that a presidential election by direct universal suffrage has been postponed in Senegal. Clashes took place between opponents and the police in Dakar, the capital, on Saturday. The President of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, called on the Senegalese this Monday to resolve their ‘political dispute’