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February 14, 2024

Crackdown Intensifies in Senegal Following Postponement of Presidential Election
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The U.N. has warned of escalating tensions in Senegal as the government
intensifies its crackdown on protesters who've taken to the streets
since last week denouncing President Macky Sall's postponement of
February's election. Sall's government has again cut off mobile internet
access and banned a large mobilization that had been planned for
Tuesday. This comes as Amnesty International reported Senegalese
security forces recently killed at least three protesters, including a
16-year-old teen, in the capital Dakar.


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