Senegal: Student Killed During Dakar Protests

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Protests in Senegal (file photo)
10 February 2024
allAfrica.com

Dakar — A young man was killed during these clashes, reports our correspondent in Dakar, Juliette Dubois. He was a student at Gaston Berger University.

His death was confirmed by a hospital source and a university source. According to the university's geography club, his name is Alpha Yoro Tounkara who was studying in the second year of his degree in this discipline.

In other towns in the north of the country such as Louga, groups of demonstrators were seen burning tires. Several arrests took place and similar scenes took place in Mbacké.

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