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Vol 63 No 19

Published 22nd September 2022


Senegal

Weakened president in troubled waters

Electoral setbacks have left Macky Sall with a razor-thin majority, while he faces outcry over a suspected third-term bid

'A sorry spectacle'. That is how president Macky Sall qualified the scenes of fighting lawmakers at the opening of the Assemblée nationale, Senegal's 165-strong parliament, on 12 September. For the first time in 60 years, gendarmes entered the parliament building, to put an end to the disorder.

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