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Senegal: Opposition Leader Ousmane Sonko Indicted Over Rape Case
The Point, 19 January 2023
The decision of Oumar Maham Diallo has just fallen concerning the Ousmane Sonko - Adji Sarr affair. Indeed, the Dean of Judges has decided to indict the leader of Pastef for rape… Read more »
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CPJ, 15 December 2022
In response to a Senegalese court's decision to release journalist Pape Alé Niang on bail with strict conditions, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following… Read more »
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Senegal: "People Will Become More Radical" - Senegal And The Limits Of Protest
African Arguments, 18 October 2022
Senegal has a rich history of social movements, but they have done more to resolve political conflicts than open up new horizons... at least up to now. Read more »
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Senegal: Journalist Arrested On National Security Charges
VOA, 7 November 2022
A Senegalese journalist has been arrested after being accused of spreading information harmful to public security. The arrest comes after the journalist published articles about… Read more »
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CPJ, 14 November 2022
Senegalese authorities should drop all charges against journalist Pape Alé Niang, release him, and reform the country's laws to ensure journalism is not criminalized, the… Read more »
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Senegal: 2024 Presidential Poll Is Shaping Up As a Real Contest, With Voters in the Driver's Seat
The Conversation Africa, 14 September 2022
In July 2022 Senegalese voters converged at polling stations to elect 165 members of parliament (MPs) to represent them in the National Assembly. Read more »
Senegal's Opposition Leader Indicted Over Rape Case
The leader of opposition party Pastef, Ousmane Sonko, has been charged with the alleged rape of a 20-year-old beauty salon employee.
Then-46-year-old Ousmane Sonko, the youngest candidate to run in the 2019 presidential election that ended with him in third place, accused President Macky Sall, the Interior Minister Antoine Felix Diome, and the Prosecutor of the Republic, Bassirou Gueye, of plotting to remove him.
The news of Sonko's arrest on March 3, 2021, led to clashes in the capital, Dakar, in which five people were killed. Sonko, president of opposition party Pastef, is widely seen as President Macky Sall's biggest potential political challenger in the 2024 general elections. The protests after his arrest has been spurred on by broader, long-standing grievances with Sall's administration.
Recently journalist Pape Alé Niang was released on bail on charges related to a November 3 video that Dakarmatin published, in which Niang reported on the contents of a gendarmerie report that allegedly exonerated Ousmane Sonko.
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In February 2021, a 20-year-old Senegalese woman accused Ousmane Sonko, a longstanding national member of parliament of rape - formally laying a charge - and he was arrested. ... Read more »
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In a television interview, a woman accusing opposition leader Ousmane Sonko of rape, said that the case must proceed in court. The news of Sonko's arrest on March 3, 2021, led to ... Read more »
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Senegalese authorities on Monday charged opposition leader Ousmane Sonko with rape and then freed him from detention pending an investigation. His arrest last week sparked deadly ... Read more »
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko believes the allegations against him are part of a political ploy (file photo).
