Security forces disperse rally amid election crisis in Senegal
Senegalese security forces on Friday used tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital amid mounting anger over the postponement of a presidential election. teleSUR
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00:00 Senegalese security forces on Friday used tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital
00:05 amid mounting anger over the postponement of a presidential election.
00:10 Anti-riot police kept back people trying to get to the Place de la Nation in the centre
00:16 of Dakar where a rally had been planned.
00:19 Some demonstrators reportedly threw stones and set fire to tyres as the square was closed
00:24 off.
00:25 According to social network reports, clashes spread to other areas of the capital, forcing
00:30 market traders to close.
00:33 Police also dispersed the protests by about 200 people in Nyoro Durrib, some 250 kilometres
00:39 east of Dakar.
00:41 Protests were called after President Macky Sall postponed the scheduled presidential
00:45 election on February 25th by 10 months.
00:53 Macky Sall has no right to postpone the election.
00:56 He only has a few days left in power, not even a fortnight, and he wants to postpone
01:00 our election to stay in power forever.
01:03 With just his pen, he wants to deprive 7 million Senegalese of the right to vote.
01:07 We don't want him anymore.
01:09 We want him out of power.
01:12 Frankly we Senegalese are tired, really tired of Macky Sall.
01:16 We ask only one thing of him, that he leaves power and organises transparent elections
01:20 on February 25th 2024.