He risked defeat even if the charismatic Pastef party leader Ousmane Sonko recently convicted of corrupting a minor was disqualified from standing...
Justice minister Sidiki Kaba – a former head of the International Human Rights Federation – has dismissed critics of the tough crackdown on the protests that followed the conviction of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko (AC Vol 64 No 12 Street hits back for Sonko)...
Senegalese are in shock after lethal clashes between police and crowds protesting the 1 June conviction of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko for 'corrupting the morals' of 20-year-old masseuse Adji Sarr...
More than two years after he was first charged with raping the masseuse Adji Sarr and then making death threats Ousmane Sonko the charismatic leader of the Pastef Les Patriotes party and one of President Macky Sall's most determined opponents this week finally faced trial after an incendiary build-up to the proceedings...
In local and legislative elections in 2022 Seck's Rewmi party lost control of Thiès Senegal's third city and for decades Seck's political fiefdom to the opposition alliance of Yewwi Askan Wi led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall (AC Vol 63 No 3 Sall sags at polls)...
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Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's plans to contest next year's presidential elections remain intact despite losing a defamation case for accusing tourism minister Mame Mbaye Niang of embezzlement (AC Vol 64 No 7 Sonko and the street take battle to Sall)...
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Attention is focusing on Ousmane Sonko the main opposition challenger in next year's presidential election who was charged with defamation and caught in police tear-gas fired at his supporters as he made his way to court on 16 March...
Ousmane Sonko the charismatic leader of the Pastefs les Patriotes opposition party is in full campaign mode for the presidential elections due in early 2024 – although President Macky Sall is yet to announce whether he will run for a third term...
Dakar now seems out of reach for BBY for the foreseeable future while the tenacity of President Macky Sall's main challenger and now mayor of Ziguinchor Ousmane Sonko of the Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail l'éthique et la fraternité (PASTEF the core of the YAW coalition) has surprised many...
Provisional results confirm the dominance in most urban areas of the opposition alliance of Yewwi Askan Wi led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall and the Wallu movement of 96-year-old former President Abdoulaye Wade (AC Vol 63 No 11)...