Over the course of a weekend, Senegal went from calmly waiting for the opening of the presidential campaign, to the clashes and shocks of the announcement of a postponement of the vote.
On Saturday, the country was caught cold, or almost, by the brief speech of President Macky Sall, in which he announced the postponement of the election scheduled for February 25.
On Monday, tension increased further with the debate in the Assembly of a law allowing the vote to be postponed.
Barring any surprises, the law was to be adopted in the evening after electrical exchanges.
In the Plateau district, the heart of Dakar and political decision-making, small groups of protesters played cat and mouse with the security forces deployed en masse and supported by heavy vehicles around the Assembly.
The violence remains contained, but the anger is real and deep.
Fearing that Dakar would burst into flames, the government suspended mobile internet.
The opponents rejected this vote in advance, which they described
as…
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