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Tensions are rising in Senegal as opposition leader Sonko is targeted again

Last updated: 2023/06/29 at 2:12 PM
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In Senegal, opposition chief Ousmane Sonko says he has been summoned to look in courtroom 5 completely different instances since March and now needs assurances about his security earlier than he reappears, citing a insecurity within the courts.

Sonko was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and a $336,000 nice for defamation filed by the nation’s tourism minister, Mame Mbaye Niang, on Monday. Sonko was reportedly not current on the listening to.

It adopted a March verdict during which Sonko was ordered to look after safety forces eliminated him from his automobile in Dakar, sparking protests within the metropolis. The brand new sentence, invoking the two-month determination handed in March, might stop Sonko’s presidential candidacy in 2024 if he decides to run once more as deliberate. He’s additionally charged with rape with a trial beginning Might 16.

Sonko and supporters of his Pastef Les Patriotes social gathering say President Macky Sall, elected in 2012, and his administration attacked Sonko to dissuade him from difficult Sall.

Sonko got here third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and since then protests have proven well-liked assist for his management, together with clashes in 2021 that led to 14 dead. Sall, a departure from the West African nation’s repute for stability and democratic ideas, has silenced opposition voices and did not ship on promised reforms, with Sonko a frequent goal.

Final month, Sonko led a marketing campaign by greater than 100 political events and civil society teams in opposition to a 3rd time period for Sall, which the president stated wouldn’t violate the Senegalese structure if he so elected. The F24 Motion of Very important Forces is planning demonstrations in opposition to a third-term Sall on Friday

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“Macky Sall, your predecessors fulfilled their phrases and left Senegal in stability and peace,” Sonko stated Monday. “Do the identical.”

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