Senegal’s Constitutional Council has Saturday endorsed the candidacy of 20 people vying for the country’s top post. The court decision has dashed the hopes of jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko (Pastef), and the exiled leader of PDS Karim Wade of taking part in the 2024 electoral competition. For the first[Read More…]
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Senegal’s Ousmane Sonko Turns Down Gov’t Offer
PASTEF leader, Ousmane Sonko, has turned down an offer by Senegalese authorities, allowing him to leave the country in exchange of liberty. The Parliamentarian for Ziguinchor, Guy Mary Sagnia, made the revelation over the weekend as Senegal is inexorably moving towards the February 25, 2024 Presidential election. Senegal’s opposition leader[Read More…]
Senegal: Five Navy Commandos Went Missing
The Senegalese army announced that Navy commandos went missing after the patrol boat WALO intercepted a suspected navy boat believed to belong to narco-traffickers. In a four-paragraph news relase issued on Saturday and seen by JollofNews, Army Spokesperson Colonel Moussa Koulibaly, said, the five missing Navy commandos were part of[Read More…]
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