The situation remains tense in Senegal in the wake of clashes that resulted in six new deaths, bringing to 15 the death toll of the clashes since Thursday, the day the opposition figure Osman Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison.
The situation remains tense in Senegal in the wake of clashes that resulted in six new deaths, bringing to 15 the death toll of the clashes since Thursday, the day the opposition figure Osman Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison.
“On June 2, we recorded six deaths, four of them in the Dakar region and two in the Ziguinchor region,” a spokesman for Interior Minister Maham Ka told AFP.
Clashes erupted on Friday evening between small groups of young demonstrators and the police in Dakar, its suburbs, and the south of the country.
