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24 Arrested, Seizes Weapons After Senegal Pre-Election Violence

by DC Editors - February 14, 2019

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Weapons Senegal Pre-Election Violence

From Voice of America

Police in eastern Senegal have made two dozen arrests and seized knives and clubs after clashes in the run-up to presidential elections left at least two dead, officials said Tuesday.

The violence erupted Monday in Tambacounda, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Dakar, pitching supporters of President Macky Sall against those of opposition candidate Issa Sall.

One supporter of the president was fatally stabbed by a suspected member of the opposition Unity and Assembly Party (PUR), the sources said.

A second fatality was part of a group of young pro-government motorcyclists that tried to prevent Issa Sall’s motorcade from leaving the town. He was hit by a vehicle and died, they said.

Local media reported that a third supporter of the president died of injuries, but the officials did not confirm this.

“The gendarmerie have arrested 24 people,” a security source in Tambacounda told AFP on Tuesday.

Moustapha Sarr, a senior official with PUR, said 20 of the arrests were supporters of Issa Sall.

Macky Sall and Issa Sall share the same surname but are not related.

Tambacounda public prosecutor Demba Traore said the arrests were mainly members of Issa Sall’s security guard, and police had seized knives and clubs on PUR members.

Interior Minister Aly Ngouille Ndiaye said the police would find those responsible for the violence and “bring them to justice.”

He said national police would be available to work with the security teams of all presidential candidates until the end of elections.

Other incidents

Eight journalists who were covering Issa Sall’s campaign were hurt when their minibus was attacked by suspected supporters of the ruling coalition, organizations representing media workers said.

Senegal, a former French colony, has been buffeted by violence ahead of the Feb. 24 vote, which Macky Sall hopes to win outright in the first round.

On Sunday at least two people were “seriously injured” in Fatick, a presidential stronghold in Senegal’s center-west, in clashes with supporters of rising opposition candidate Ousmane Sonko, local media reported.

Four people, all Sonko supporters, were badly hurt Feb. 4 in the northern city of Saint-Louis, Sonko’s campaign said.

Issa Sall said Tuesday on Twitter that after the “tragic events” in Tambacounda, he would be “suspending” his campaign and heading back to the capital.

President’s reaction

On Monday, the president called for calm but took aim at his predecessor and political rival, Abdoulaye Wade, who last week called for his supporters to burn their electoral registration cards and ballot sheets.

The clashes “are the result of the call for violence by certain political leaders … who will be brought before the courts to account for their acts,” President Sall said.

Senegal’s election campaigns are often marred by accusations of corruption, influence-peddling and dirty tricks, and misinformation, although the country is also often held up as a beacon of democracy and relative prosperity in West Africa.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Africa, Democracy Protests, Senegal, West Africa

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