UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
22 November 2007
In the morning, citizens burned cars, threw stones and pillaged the mayor's office in the capital, Dakar. In the afternoon, they ran through tear gas and threw up their arms in defense as riot police beat them with rubber truncheons. It has been six years since such serious riots in Senegal, generally a beacon of stability in West Africa. And both demonstrations came down to one thing: ...
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