DAKAR: A student was killed within the Senegalese metropolis of Saint-Louis amid Friday’s violent protests in opposition to the postponement of the presidential election, the inside ministry mentioned on Saturday.
Clashes between safety forces and protesters gripped Senegal‘s capital and different cities on Friday, the primary widespread unrest over the delay of a vote that many worry might result in protracted instability.
In an announcement, the ministry mentioned it had been knowledgeable of the loss of life of pupil Alpha Yero Tounkara and that it will be investigated, however denied its forces have been in charge.
“The Defence and Safety Forces didn’t intervene to take care of order on the college campus the place the loss of life occurred,” it mentioned.
It was not instantly clear if protests would proceed on Saturday. Additional violent stand-offs with safety forces will add to fears of democratic retreat.
Lower than three weeks earlier than the Feb. 25 presidential vote, parliament voted to push it again to December, sealing an extension of president Macky Sall’s mandate, which has raised considerations that one of many remaining democracies in coup-hit West Africa is below risk.
Sall, who has reached his constitutional restrict of two phrases, mentioned he delayed the vote on account of disputes that he mentioned threatened the credibility of the electoral course of, however a few of the opposition have denounced the transfer as an “institutional coup.”
Clashes between safety forces and protesters gripped Senegal‘s capital and different cities on Friday, the primary widespread unrest over the delay of a vote that many worry might result in protracted instability.
In an announcement, the ministry mentioned it had been knowledgeable of the loss of life of pupil Alpha Yero Tounkara and that it will be investigated, however denied its forces have been in charge.
“The Defence and Safety Forces didn’t intervene to take care of order on the college campus the place the loss of life occurred,” it mentioned.
It was not instantly clear if protests would proceed on Saturday. Additional violent stand-offs with safety forces will add to fears of democratic retreat.
Lower than three weeks earlier than the Feb. 25 presidential vote, parliament voted to push it again to December, sealing an extension of president Macky Sall’s mandate, which has raised considerations that one of many remaining democracies in coup-hit West Africa is below risk.
Sall, who has reached his constitutional restrict of two phrases, mentioned he delayed the vote on account of disputes that he mentioned threatened the credibility of the electoral course of, however a few of the opposition have denounced the transfer as an “institutional coup.”
