Ousmane Sonko, declared presidential candidate but threatened with ineligibility by legal cases that he denounces as a plot of the state, has not given any public news since Sunday morning. He undertook a return march to Dakar in the south of the country on Friday.
The convoy drew crowds of enthusiastic young supporters and was marred by clashes between youths and security forces, in which one man was killed. In 2021, he was arrested in Dakar while he was going in procession to the summons of a judge in a rape case.